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  Sexy Greedy: Caryl Churchill, the City Comedy, and the World Big Bang Made

  Serious Money: A deep dive into an essential English drama

  June 2, 2026
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  A History of British Architecture: Edwardian and Modern Britain c. 1900 to 1970

  A meander through the History of British Architecture: Edwardian and Modern Britain c. 1900 to 1970

  May 30, 2026
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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 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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  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
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  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
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  Three Sisters at the National Theatre review ***

  Three Sisters National Theatre Lyttleton, 9th December 2019 Opportunity partially missed I am afraid. Inua Ellams has come up with a brilliant idea by transporting Chekhov to 1960s Nigeria, specifically during the Biafaran Civil War. Yet his urge to educate and contextualise leaves the dialogue heavy on exposition. And, in…

  January 29, 2020
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  The Antipodes at the National Theatre review ****

  The Antipodes National Theatre Dorfman, 23rd November 2019 I’ll tell you what. That Annie Baker backs herself. Here is another long play, near 2 hours straight through, where, visually, nothing much happens, bar a properly weird interlude, and dense with word. And this time it is a story about stories,…

  January 14, 2020
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  “Master Harold” … and the boys at the National Theatre review *****

  “Master Harold” … and the boys National Theatre Lyttleton, 26th October 2019 I was surprised by this. Not by the content. Athol Fugard, like his compatriot in the plastic arts William Kentridge, has more than enough inspiration to fuel his art from the history of his nation. Master Harold, like…

  November 27, 2019
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  Barber Shop Chronicles at the Oxford Playhouse review *****

  Barber Shop Chronicles Oxford Playhouse, 10th October 2019 My regular reader is likely on the verge of giving up on the grounds that otiose attitude, (a sign of which is that I am running out of synonyms for lazy in these preamble apologies), means most of these comments take so…

  November 18, 2019