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April 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Susan

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Waking Up In My Own Pink World: Much Ado About Nothing @ Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

Rave new world! Jamie Lloyd’s party take on William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell convince utterly…

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March 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Susan

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Black Bag

Take Mr and Mrs Smith but make it serious with heaps of beautiful yellow light and a gorgeous jazz score by David Holmes. Dollop on…

March 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM

Susan

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The Other Fellow: Oedipus @ The Old Vic, London

2025 — the year of Oedipi. Rami Malek and Indira Varma play the fated couple, Oedipus and Jocasta in a more traditional take on the drama…

March 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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Kyoto @ sohoplace theatre, London

Ever wanted to be part of the solution and not the problem? Well in Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play, you can (with the help of Stephen…

March 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Susan

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Hamlet: Near, Far, Wherever You Are…Horatio

@ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon

March 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Susan

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The One I Didn’t Like: Birdsong

I really really enjoy the Sebastian Faulks novel Birdsong — it’s a bit Madame Bovary, a bit Proust, a bit Dickensian. Plus a dollop of…

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March 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Susan

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The Seagull @ Barbican, London

A modernist take on Chekhov’s with an Interstellar-style cornfield and in which you long for Cate Blanchett to do a musical next — for she…

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March 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Susan

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A Street Car Named Desire @ Noel Coward Theatre, London

Better than a Golden ticket in a chocolate bar, the joyous feeling of having secured a literal hot ticket for Tennessee Williams’ play…

February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM

Susan

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Exceptional Shakespeare: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo’s MacBeth

David Tennant may walk 500 miles to present the BAFTA’s; I would venture to walk 500 more just to see another broadcast of the filmed…

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February 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM

Susan

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September 5

The title is baffling, but by the end you will ‘remember, remember the 5th of September…1972’. A slower, more traditional-style drama…

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February 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM

Susan

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The Knowledge: Why Christians Should Be Like Taxi Cab Drivers

On my way back from the opera (a wonderful Aida with all of Verdi’s best tunes) on a very, very slow train which caused me to miss all the…

February 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Susan

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I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying: Hard Truths

Mike Leigh’s superb drama makes the most of his actors and actresses and draws us in with a compelling story. Dick Pope’s beautiful…

February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Susan

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Just give this movie all the awards — that is all.

Nickel Boys

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February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM

Susan

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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof @ Almeida Theatre, London

I was very, very fortunate to bag a returned ticket for this splendid, visceral adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play. However, public…

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February 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Susan

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Tudors, Tudors Everywhere: A Man For All Seasons @ Chichester Festival Theatre

I love Robert Bolt’s play, but I think I love the Zinnemann 1966 movie version with Paul Scofield, Wendy Hillier, Susannah York and Robert…

Ralph Fiennes in Conversation - The Prince Charles Cinema

February 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Regrets not checking email! princecharlescinema.com/film/3161696...

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January 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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They ate'nt dead yet, but this independent cinema needs cherishing and protecting. A good excuse to watch more movies there - princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/

#SaveThePCC

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January 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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Ballet Shoes @ National Theatre, London

Cars! Dinosaurs! Fossils! Aerialist futuristic fairies! Ballet! Lots of my favourite things on one stage in one show! You’ve read the book…

January 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Out of brutal times and experiences comes…beauty. Mix up Orson Wells Citizen Kane, hints of La Chimera, some Whatever Happened To Baby Jane…

The Brutalist

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January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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Splann: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Musical @ Ambassadors Theatre, London

It’s Celtic, its Cornish, its not like the movie. It’s delightful, compelling, engrossing, timey-wimey and psychological, and features…

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January 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Susan

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A Complete Unknown

This Bob Dylan and the whole American Folk world will immerse you completely. Completely driven by the music, you’re drawn into the lives…

January 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Susan

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‘Shut Up Leo!’ Little Foxes @ Young Vic, London

Sold as a #MeToo moment — I really struggled with this Lillian Hellman production. Essentially about horrible rich people trying to get…

January 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Susan

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Assist: King James @ Hampstead Theatre, London

Not the Scottish King, but the basketball GOAT. In a beautiful and engaging two man play, two friends debate life, class, expectations…

January 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Susan

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Wild About The…Wild Robot

A charming animation, in a less harrowing style of Watership Down/Bambi, during which we learn about the circle of life; life and death and…