Tag: Queen Anne

  • The Favourite film review *****

    The Favourite, 3rd January 2019 The more theatre I see, the more I am turning into an insufferably superior luvvie. “A play will always trump a film because it is organic, dynamic, viewed from multiple perspectives, energised by audience complicity, palpable, alive, more daring in terms of form and structure”…

  • Queen Anne at the Theatre Royal Haymarket review ***

    Queen Anne Theatre Royal Haymarket, 3rd August 2017 Tricky customers history plays. How to introduce the characters and explain events without slackening the dramatic pace. It’s OK if your Will Shakespeare. He wrote the history. Or at least someone before him wrote something, which he then purloined and turned it…