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  Catching up (Part 4)

  January 2021 to April 2021 The novelty of digital entertainment by now very much worn off but, fortunately, there were plenty of other worthwhile distractions (the return of birdwatching after four decades perhaps the most surprising) for the Tourist to mask the lack of live cultural stimulation. (And travel, which…

  November 10, 2021
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  Catching up (Part 1)

  February 2020 Yep. You read that right. February 2020. Just before you know what kicked off and the stages went dark. You would have thought that the last 18 months would have given the Tourist plenty of time and inclination to continue reporting on his cultural journey. But no. Despite…

  October 18, 2021
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  all of it at the Royal Court Theatre review *****

  all of it Royal Court Theatre, 11th February 2020 So we will have to wait for Alistair McDowall’s latest full length play The Glow at the Royal Court, postponed thanks to you know what. Mr McDowall was the pen, and brains, behind dystopian/sci-fi/mystery/thriller/social satires Brilliant Adventures, Talk Show, Captain Amazing,…

  May 27, 2020
• Culture London Myths Theatre

  Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. review at the Royal Court Theatre *****

  Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. Royal Court Theatre, 30th September 2019 Caryl Churchill is the greatest English language living playwright and, IMHO, the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. Now I know that many of you would disagree, and that the vast majority of people on the planet couldn’t give a f*ck, but…

  November 8, 2019
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  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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  Top Girls at the National Theatre review ****

  Top Girls National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th April 2019 OK. So I might have oversold this one. It is still Caryl Churchill. With that extraordinary opening act. And that carefully calibrated feminist message, as relevant now as it was when it first appeared in 1982, of how to balance “success” in…

  April 21, 2019
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  Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Sweat Donmar Warehouse, 24th January 2019 Who is the greatest living playwright (in the English language). Caryl Churchill. Obviously. Who is, in the opinion of the Tourist, probably the most talented playwright under 40 in Britain today. Ella Hickson. What was the best original play the Tourist saw last year.…

  February 15, 2019
• Culture London Theatre

  The best theatre coming up in London

  It’s been a little while since the Tourist set out his favourite theatre opportunities either on now (in the case of Nine Night), or coming up over the year in London. Nothing too obscure or fringe-y here. Tried and trusted in terms of writer, director, cast and/or venue. The first…

  February 14, 2019
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  Love and Information at Sheffield Theatres review *****

  Love and Information Sheffield Crucible Theatre Studio, 7th July 2018 So here was my cunning plan. LD wanted/needed to have a sniff around the University. I spied this revival on the very evening. A chance to have a good look at this fine city. And, though not the original intention,…

  July 29, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…

  May 26, 2018