Life of Pi, Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted on December 3, 2021 by mkmswain

A teenage boy adrift at sea for 227 days with only a Royal Bengal tiger for company? Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning philosophical novel Life of Pi is the ultimate adaptation challenge.

Read my full London Theatre review here

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Romeo and Juliet, Royal Albert Hall

Posted on December 2, 2021 by mkmswain

Sergei Polunin finds his redemption, but Alina Cojocaru’s the star in this new production.

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Strictly Speaking: Week 10

Posted on November 29, 2021 by mkmswain

Can you believe it’s nearly the quarter-finals already? Dan Walker is still here, so I certainly can’t.

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Strictly Come Dancing 2021, week 10

Posted on November 29, 2021 by mkmswain

Tilly Ramsay is scuppered by the samba, plunging from the top to the bottom of the leaderboard.

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Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith

Posted on November 28, 2021 by mkmswain

The traditional curtain-raiser for theatre’s festive season sacrifices pantomime silliness for painful political gags.

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The Drifters Girl, Garrick Theatre

Posted on November 26, 2021 by mkmswain

It’s a crying shame that we don’t have more showcase roles in musical theatre for blazing talent like soul queen Beverley Knight, and if nothing else, this new show supplies one.

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Four Quartets, Harold Pinter Theatre

Posted on November 25, 2021 by mkmswain

TS Eliot’s dense, sprawling, four-poem cycle exploring time, faith, mortality, history, love, and everything in between doesn’t exactly scream commercial theatre.

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A Christmas Carol, Old Vic

Posted on November 25, 2021 by mkmswain

Matthew Warchus’s Dickensian charmer is back at the Old Vic for a fifth year.

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Manor, National Theatre

Posted on November 24, 2021 by mkmswain

Moira Buffini’s state-of-the-nation play is pegged to that irresistible trope: the dark and stormy night, with a group of strangers forced to seek shelter in a spooky manor house. 

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Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon review: Outlander is back – but why sideline the heroine?

Posted on November 24, 2021 by mkmswain

After a seven-year wait, the new instalment of the Outlander series finds our heroes caught in the middle of the American Revolutionary War.

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