Andrzej Łukowski
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
sad the Americans don’t get June Watson (90), thrilled they instead get Anne Reid (90) – I mean that’s living a life isn’t it
BROADWAY REVIEW: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a new version of the complex Greek tragedy Oedipus (★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...
Broadway review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in Oedipus (★★★★)
Stars shine in Robert Icke's version of the complex Greek tragedy
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
sad the Americans don’t get June Watson (90), thrilled they instead get Anne Reid (90) – I mean that’s living a life isn’t it
I went to see Last Day of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition and it was enjoyably silly in a kind of 'somewhat inaccurate history for a 14-year-old metaller’ sort of way www.timeout.com/london/thing...
The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition review, ImmerseLDN: This preposterously bombastic immersive exhibition about the eruption of Vesuvius is silly but fun
Tech-enhanced exhibition detailing the Roman town of Pompeii’s final hours before it was destroyed by a volcano
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November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I went to see Last Day of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition and it was enjoyably silly in a kind of 'somewhat inaccurate history for a 14-year-old metaller’ sort of way www.timeout.com/london/thing...
Porn Play at the Royal Court has an incredibly committed performance from Ambika Mod at its centre, but I couldn’t help but feel a drama about a woman addicted to violent porn is so rare that all the clever clever stuff about Milton really clogged it up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Porn Play, Royal Court Theatre review: Ambika Mod gives a fearless performance as a woman addicted to violent porn in this gutsy new play
I’m going to be honest and say that I was worried I’d not be able to take a drama about a porn addict entirely seriously. It’s an unusual subject!And certainl
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November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Porn Play at the Royal Court has an incredibly committed performance from Ambika Mod at its centre, but I couldn’t help but feel a drama about a woman addicted to violent porn is so rare that all the clever clever stuff about Milton really clogged it up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
the guardian writing an editorial in praise of the return of Play for Today and then slagging off the actual product feels emblematic of the whole situation - people love the idea of P4T but what could it possibly actually be like in 2025? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Play for Today review – Channel 5 has turned wildly influential TV drama into banal pantomime
This revival of the classic BBC drama strand is utterly lacking in the innovative spirit of the original. The next Dennis Potter might be out there somewhere …but they certainly aren’t here
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November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
the guardian writing an editorial in praise of the return of Play for Today and then slagging off the actual product feels emblematic of the whole situation - people love the idea of P4T but what could it possibly actually be like in 2025? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
thrilled to say I'm in today’s Guardian theatre section (quoted last in a reviews round up) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Gasp-worthy, clunky, a moral problem? Critics react to The Hunger Games: On Stage
The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf
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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
thrilled to say I'm in today’s Guardian theatre section (quoted last in a reviews round up) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
I thought if The Hunger Games: On Stage had had a really great lead performance it would actually have been pretty great, as it is Mia Carragher is okay but not a generational talent etc www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage
This lavish stage adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel is staged in the purpose built Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
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November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I thought if The Hunger Games: On Stage had had a really great lead performance it would actually have been pretty great, as it is Mia Carragher is okay but not a generational talent etc www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Play for Today is back tonight apparently - here’s a thing I wrote about the complicated phenomenon of nostalgia for a show that ended 40 years ago and could never exist in its old form today!
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
We should remain open-minded about the new Play for Today, writes Andrzej Lukowski 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Play for Today is back tonight apparently - here’s a thing I wrote about the complicated phenomenon of nostalgia for a show that ended 40 years ago and could never exist in its old form today!
if you take every Bond film as canon then he’s a 100+ year old shapeshifting entity doomed to repeat an endless cycle of recruitment to MI5, meeting the latest incarnation of Blofeld, etc etc (tbh I'd be into a film that expressly addressed this)
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
if you take every Bond film as canon then he’s a 100+ year old shapeshifting entity doomed to repeat an endless cycle of recruitment to MI5, meeting the latest incarnation of Blofeld, etc etc (tbh I'd be into a film that expressly addressed this)
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Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub
this incredibly goth Charli XCX/John Cale collaboration from the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack is so good it‘s making me temporarily open-minded about the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
this incredibly goth Charli XCX/John Cale collaboration from the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack is so good it‘s making me temporarily open-minded about the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
oh no no no
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
oh no no no
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
We should remain open-minded about the new Play for Today, writes Andrzej Lukowski 👇
Andrzej Lukowski on Play for Today
Channel 5's redux of Play for Today probably won't satisfy nostalgic cravings but that doesn't mean it won't be good or that TV has no space for playwrights, says Andrzej Lukowski
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November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
weirdly light and funny take on Othello at the Haymarket, you’d say 'what do you expect in a commercial theatre’ but funny how jarring it feels now West End Shakespeare has basically become the preserve of Jamie Lloyd and Robert Icke www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Othello, Theatre Royal Haymarket review: David Harewood and Toby Jones are excellent in this overly-polished West End Shakespeare
Though it would be pushing it to say Tom Morris directs Othello as a comedy, he certainly wrings more laughs than usual out of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.To
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November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
weirdly light and funny take on Othello at the Haymarket, you’d say 'what do you expect in a commercial theatre’ but funny how jarring it feels now West End Shakespeare has basically become the preserve of Jamie Lloyd and Robert Icke www.timeout.com/london/theat...
this is a boring comment but my ultimate game pass xbox subscription price has not gone up, will it continue to not go up?
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
this is a boring comment but my ultimate game pass xbox subscription price has not gone up, will it continue to not go up?
Happy Mamdani won, happier still that after several long hard decades, the 2025 New York City mayoral election has been concluded
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy Mamdani won, happier still that after several long hard decades, the 2025 New York City mayoral election has been concluded
£74.50 as top price for the new Court season is an unfortunate sign of the times, over a tenner up on this year
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
£74.50 as top price for the new Court season is an unfortunate sign of the times, over a tenner up on this year
finished reading Lord of the Rings with the eldest, a process that has taken up most of the year. ONLY NOW is her permitted to watch the films
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
finished reading Lord of the Rings with the eldest, a process that has taken up most of the year. ONLY NOW is her permitted to watch the films
so paddington is going to be played by a small person in a bear costume, is that what the big secret was
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
so paddington is going to be played by a small person in a bear costume, is that what the big secret was
the most annoying thing about this phenomenon is it is implicitly based on the assumption everything was loads better five years ago or whatever, which it definitely wasn’t
You guys have got to stop saying things are made with AI just because you think they’re bad
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
the most annoying thing about this phenomenon is it is implicitly based on the assumption everything was loads better five years ago or whatever, which it definitely wasn’t
I am increasingly convinced Your Party are a psyop by the Greens
Zarah Sultana sets sights on replacing Labour and gaining power
Zarah Sultana sets sights on replacing Labour and gaining power
MP who left Labour in July to form leftwing grouping with Jeremy Corbyn, says party is not just one of protest
The MP Zarah Sultana has said she hopes her new political party will ultimately replace Labour as she revealed she is committed to winning power.
Sultana left the Labour party in July to form the new group, operating under the temporary name Your Party. Continue reading...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I am increasingly convinced Your Party are a psyop by the Greens
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I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
I thought Michael Grandage’s take on The Line of Beauty was very impressive storytelling, even if it seemed aggressively resistant to any kind of unexpected theatrical flourish whatsoever
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The Line of Beauty, Almeida Theatre review: this adaptation of the classic novel of Thatcherite Britain is a hugely impressive piece of storytelling
Michael Grandage directs a stage adaptation of Alan Hollinghurt’s classic novel of Thatcherite Britain
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October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I thought Michael Grandage’s take on The Line of Beauty was very impressive storytelling, even if it seemed aggressively resistant to any kind of unexpected theatrical flourish whatsoever
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
ooh Arcadia at the Old Vic! Feels like one of those plays that should be done every five years with wearing inevitability but in fact is really very much not
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ooh Arcadia at the Old Vic! Feels like one of those plays that should be done every five years with wearing inevitability but in fact is really very much not
I feel like it’s not calling for a PhD level of understanding to get that the Lord of the Rings is in a very literal sense about how the hobbits were the only ones capable of saving the world
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I feel like it’s not calling for a PhD level of understanding to get that the Lord of the Rings is in a very literal sense about how the hobbits were the only ones capable of saving the world