Shaw’s women – a double bill of plays by George Bernard Shaw
The double bill is a great idea. You get dressed up and head out to the theatre just like normal, but get to see two plays and experience the lives of two separate sets of […]
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Bette and Joan – The Final Curtain: Icons at the St James Theatre
‘You should only say good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.’ Bette Davis The queue for the studio auditorium at the St James Theatre included a chopsy old lady in a wheelchair. She […]
Five Stars – the delicious madcappery of Variety Soup by @FatSlightly is face-achingly funny
Get these gents a TV show Variety Soup opens with a hilarious Buster Keaton inspired sequence. Black and white film that segues into live action shows Goronwy Thom’s journey from towel-losing swimmer at Brighton to […]
Books, blindness and Borges. And I. Devised theatre from @idlemotion
Even in the indie-ist of indie films and the offy-ist of off-Broadway dramas opticians and librarians rarely get big roles. Hollywood super-villains are rarely evil opthalmic surgeons and Quick! To the library is not often heard […]