Review: National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)
byTennessee Williams’ play, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955, explores the nature of truth, lies, death, family and alcohol. For their latest performance,…
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Review: National Theatre Live: Young Marx (2018)
byKarl Marx. A name that inspires equal amounts of fervent respect and spiteful hatred, depending on which group you’re talking to. A genius of…
Review: National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017)
byAt only 33, Australian actor/director Simon Stone is a name that most diehard theatre lovers will know. If you haven’t, be prepared to hear…
Review: National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)
byLuchino 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…
Review: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
byMeta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the level of wit as distinguishes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and…
Review: National Theatre Life: Amadeus (2016)
by‘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…
Review: National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
by…Let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of…
Film Review: National Theatre Live: Everyman (2015)
byPeople 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…
Film Review: National Theatre Live – A View from the Bridge (2014)
byA View from the Bridge is the recent production from London’s young Vic theatre, beamed across the globes as part of the National Theatre…
Review: Company (2011)
by“Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company! No strings, good times, room hums, company!” The masterful lyrics of Stephen Sondheim‘s Company simply speak for…