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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
• Agency Class Culture Family Feminism London Patriarchy Theatre

  Nora: A Doll’s House at the Young Vic review ****

  Nora: A Doll’s House Young Vic Theatre, 10th February 2020 It is not difficult to see why theatre-makers, and audiences, continue to be drawn to drawn to Ibsen’s masterpiece, now over 140 years old. First and foremost, there is the still extraordinarily powerful message. Just think what old Henrik would…

  May 27, 2020
• Culture Film Shakespeare Theatre

  My favourite lockdown theatre so far and to look forward to

  If you are, like me, a well-to-do theatre nut, missing the real thing, trying, unlike me, to fit in the panicking, worrying, exercising, zooming, reading, binge watching, baking, eating, on-line shopping, goal-satisfying, caring, and maybe working, then you have probably already been overwhelmed by the streaming opportunities already served up…

  May 13, 2020
• Class Culture Family India London Patriarchy Theatre Violence

  When the Crows Visit at the Kiln Theatre review ****

  When the Crows Visit Kiln Theatre, 6th November 2019 An adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, relocated to modern day India. Seems like a good idea no? It was. In fact better than I had expected even with its visible flaws.. Anupama Chandrasekhar has written a play that takes the Norwegian master…

  December 3, 2019
• Adventure Culture Fantasy Identity London Myths Theatre

  Peer Gynt at the National Theatre review ****

  Peer Gynt National Theatre Olivier, 1st October 2019 I know what I need. A bit more Ibsen. There are reasons why theatre-makers keep returning to the master and the slew of high profile productions in London this year alone is a reminder of why. I would probably plump for Ian…

  November 12, 2019
• Capitalism Community Culture Environment Morality Norway Nottingham Politics Theatre

  An Enemy of the People at the Nottingham Playhouse review ****

  An Enemy of the People Nottingham Playhouse, 28th September 2019 Another day, another Ibsen update. After Tanika Gupta’s intelligent relocation of A Doll’s House to colonial India and Cordelia Lynn’s not quite so successful ageing of Hedda Gabler, the Tourist’s next stop was Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s transformation of Henrik’s prototype eco-warrior…

  November 4, 2019
• Culture Family Feminism London Relationship Theatre

  Hedda Tesman at the Minerva Theatre Chichester review ***

  Hedda Tesman Minerva Theatre Chichester, 26th September 2019 This counts as a disappointment. Not because of the source material. Hedda Gabler for goodness sake. Nor the cast though I will come back to this. There were plenty of actors on show, Haydn Gwynne, Anthony Calf, Jonathan Hyde, Natalie Simpson and…

  November 3, 2019
• Colonialism Culture Feminism India London Power Theatre

  A Doll’s House at the Lyric Hammersmith review *****

  A Doll’s House Lyric Hammersmith, 18th September 2019 You can never have too much Nora. After Samuel Adamson’s gender fluid Wife at the Kiln, and this adaptation from Tanika Gupta set in colonial India, the Tourist has the 3 for the price of 1, Glasgow Citizens, radical re-working from Steff…

  October 29, 2019
• Culture Gender Identity London Relationship Theatre

  Wife at the Kiln Theatre review ****

  Wife Kiln Theatre, 3rd July 2019 How difficult can it be to get to Kilburn? Very it would seem if you are the Tourist, this being the second time this year that he has missed the start of a matinee performance, (and having cut it perilously fine on another occasion).…

  August 25, 2019
• Culture Denmark Family Morality Mortality Norway Religion Theatre

  Ghosts at the Royal and Derngate review

  Ghosts Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, 2nd May 2019 A little bit of back to back Ibsen action. First this Ghosts and then, a few days later, Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s. And the Tourist’s first visit to the Royal and Derngate which, he has Benn rather slow to…

  May 16, 2019