Review: O No! – 9 February 2017
M’Lady remained unconvinced of the gentle Bohemian spirit of ‘O No!’, as I explained: “And then the performer asked for a volunteer to get naked with him in a bag.”
M’Lady remained unconvinced of the gentle Bohemian spirit of ‘O No!’, as I explained: “And then the performer asked for a volunteer to get naked with him in a bag.”
As Sheffield Theatres debuts its brand-new musical, ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’, Andrew Burdett met its writers, Tom MacRae and Dan Gillespie Sells.
★★★★✩ Superbly suited to the tight space of The Crucible theatre’s Studio stage, the talented cast bring alive a real-life war story in this refreshingly non-London-centric production.
Christmas 2014 / Family / Reviews / Theatre / Today / World War I
Visiting Stratford to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of new play ‘The Christmas Truce’, I was delighted to find it intelligent and poignant, and yet highly accessible.
The gallery’s latest exhibition coincides with the centenary of the start of WWI and examines the effect the war had on the young artist. Stanley was one of five Spencer brothers, all of whom fought in the Great War; his older brother Sydney died at Epehy in September 1918, and is the only holder of the Military Cross remembered on the Cookham village war memorial.
Reviews / St Luke's Outings / Summer 2014 / Theatre / Today / Video
This afternoon, I joined a party from St Luke’s in our latest theatre outing, this time watching a matinee performance of Agatha Christie’s perpetually popular murder-mystery play, The Mousetrap, at Wycombe Swan.
Poverty is all around us, apparently, but surely these days no one actually goes hungry, do they? A BBC two-part documentary attempts to shine light on the hidden hunger crisis on Britain’s streets. Here, Andrew Burdett reviews it.
With Downton Abbey over for another year, I give my thoughts on the fourth series, which has just ended. (BEWARE: This post may contain spoilers!)
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