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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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  Two Ladies at the Bridge Theatre review *

  Two Ladies Bridge Theatre, 2nd October 2019 Well on the plus side the new season just announced at the Bridge looks to be a humdinger. A revival of Caryl Churchill’s A Number, directed by Polly Findlay with Roger Allam and Colin Morgan as Salter and son(s), Nick Hytner taking on…

  November 13, 2019
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  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre review *****

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bridge Theatre, 6th June 2019 Go join the Shakespeare party down at the Bridge. Nick Hytner pretty much always nails the Bard and he has done it again here. Ignore the lukewarm reviews from the critics who seem to have got a little bit antsy with…

  June 30, 2019
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  Three Sisters at the Almeida Theatre review ****

  Three Sisters Almeida Theatre, 25th April 2019 It creeps up on you this Three Sisters. As with her feted take on Tennessee Williams’s neglected Summer and Smoke last year, Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall is unafraid of letting the play take its time to unfold and delivers a similar, dreamy…

  May 8, 2019
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  Alys, Always at the Bridge Theatre review ****

  Alys, Always Bridge Theatre, 25th February 2019 Said it before and I’ll say it again. You have to be careful with adaptations of novels and/or films on stage. There may be enough in character and plot to justify the transfer but there may not always, (no pun intended), be enough…

  March 16, 2019
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  The Habit of Art at Richmond Theatre review *****

  The Habit of Art Richmond Theatre, 19th October 2018 There are a handful of plays that I regret not seeing when they first appeared. Not those I wish I had seen, That would be a very long list and cover those periods where I was not putting the required viewing…

  October 27, 2018
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  Allelujah at the Bridge Theatre review ****

  Allelujah Bridge Theatre, 12th September 2018 Yet again by the time the Tourist gets round to seeing a major London premiere and, worst still given his feckless nature, comments on it, it is as good as over. Mind you the good news is that, as far as I can see,…

  September 25, 2018
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  Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre *****

  Julius Caesar Bridge Theatre, 28th February 2018 I had really, really been looking forward to this. Julius Caesar is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. Contemporary relevance of course, but Shakespeare always has relevance. My appetite whetted by the excellent RSC production I saw at the Barbican last month, (Julius…

  March 5, 2018
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  Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Julius Caesar Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 11th January 2018 The third instalment, (for me), of the RSC “Rome” season at the Barbican which originally aired at Stratford. And, as is so often the case with this idiotic blog, it is about to end and is sold out anyway. Et…

  January 17, 2018