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Film Review: National Theatre Live: Love’s Labour’s Won (2014)
The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon have produced a rendition of Much Ado About Nothing, a play they have renamed Love’s Labour’s Won after the alleged ‘missing play’ by Shakespeare....
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Film Review: National Theatre Live – A View from the Bridge (2014)
A View from the Bridge is the recent production from London’s young Vic theatre, beamed across the globes as part of the National Theatre Live series. Dutch theatre director Ivo Van Hove delivers a...
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Film Review: National Theatre Live: Everyman (2015)
People who don’t go to the theatre often might be familiar with that age-old question of ignorance, which one leans over to ask someone more knowledgeable: “Is this good theatre or not?” This reviewer...
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Film Review: National Theatre Live: The Beaux’ Stratagem (2015)
Early 18th century playwright George Farquhar apparently didn’t quite live long enough to see his play manifest on stage, which is a real shame. Even if it does come from a “wink, wink, nudge, nudge”...
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Film Review: NT Live: Hamlet (2015)
…Let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning...
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Film Review: The Big Short (2016)
“The truth is like poetry, and most people fucking hate poetry” When the credits for The Big Short started rolling on by, the words “Directed by Adam McKay” appeared. The immediate reaction I had was...
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Film Review: The Winter’s Tale – Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company (2015)
The only criticism one could make of the script for The Winter’s Tale is that in the age of 140 character tweets, it’s a bit on the wordy side. But that’s Shakespeare for you. The immortal bard was...
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Film Review: National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2015)
Taking the now common route of casting a male in the role of Lady Bracknell, Adrian Noble directs his own version of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The play is a satire of Victorian era...
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Film Review: NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2015)
It’s safe to say that this is not something to take your kids to. After all, as they say, kids can be cruel, and a novel like Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses can give a child some...
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Film Review: National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
The McDonagh brothers have produced some of the best written and most genuinely funny plays and films in recent memory. John Michael McDonagh achieved cult status with The Guard from 2011, which has...
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Film Review: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
In post-WWII London, Hester Collyer (Helen McCrory) is the wife of a barrister-turned-high court judge. But she wouldn’t say as much. She couldn’t say so, given her present circumstances – holed up in...
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Film Review: NT Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)
Such a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus Norris‘ staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Its very core hails from a netherworld of society entrenched in...
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Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
King Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s great roles is a monumental task which only a select few...
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National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
In 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in London, the “two Sirs” Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud, took on the lead roles of Hirst and Spooner respectively, a...
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Review: National Theatre Life: Amadeus (2016)
‘Amadeus’ means ‘love of God’. It’s interpreted in a few ways but in this context it would mean ‘beloved of the Almighty’; the big cheese Himself holds a special affection for this particular object....
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Review: National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
Written at the mid-point of his career Twelfth Night (or, What you Will) is arguably the standout best comedy that Shakespeare ever wrote. Adapted by Simon Godwin for London’s National Theatre, this...
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Review: NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
Meta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the level of wit as distinguishes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The man himself is nearing his 80s now, but...
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Review: NT Live: Obsession (2017)
Luchino Visconti’s 1943 film Ossessione may be one of the lasting classics of Italian neo-realist cinema, but judging by Ivo van Hove’s clumsy adaptation for the National Theatre, perhaps the screen is...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017)
The marathon length National Theatre Live performance of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well be one of the most immersive cinema experiences of the year. Those familiar with Edward Albee’s classic...
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Film Review: NT Live: Angels in America (2017)
“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.” – Harper Pitt, Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika In early 2017, the National Theatre in...
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