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  Catching up (Part 3)

  April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…

  November 5, 2021
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  Catching up (Part 2)

  March 2020 First week of March 2020. I see that I was still out and about but I also see that I avoided a few entertainments before the cancellations started in earnest and the first lockdown kicked in. I remember feeling a little nervous but obviously no precautions taken apart…

  October 25, 2021
• Class Comedy Culture France London Satire Theatre

  God of Carnage at the Rose Theatre Kingston ***

  God of Carnage Rose Theatre Kingston, 11th February 2020 I remain ambivalent about the work of French playwright Yasmina Reza. I can see why she would wish to lampoon “middle-class” mores in her contemporary comedies of manners. There is, after all, a long and illustrious dramatic tradition of doing so.…

  May 28, 2020
• Acting Culture Jacobean London Romance Satire Shakespeare Theatre

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle Barbican Theatre, 8th June 2019 The Tourist has fallen embarrassingly behind on his documentation of a cultural life. Ironically because he has been on holiday. Unfortunately for you though this is not (yet) one of those countless dormant blogs, casualties of time and application.…

  July 27, 2019
• Acting Capitalism Culture Finance London Satire Theatre

  Serious Money at LAMDA review review ****

  Serious Money Sainsbury Theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, 4th June 2019 Last minute jaunt to Hammersmith to see one of LAMDA’s summer season offerings. If there are times when you start fulminating about paying close to a ton for a cramped perch in a dingy West End…

  June 26, 2019
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  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at the Park Theatre review **

  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson Park Theatre, 31st May 2019 Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is probably going to be your next Prime Minister, chosen by a hundred thousand or so duffers average age in the 70s. Sovereignty? Democracy? If that doesn’t make you laugh nothing will. Anyway the…

  June 22, 2019