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A Christmas Carol, Old Vic
Matthew Warchus’s Dickensian charmer is back at the Old Vic for a fifth year. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged a christmas carol, christmas, dickens, drama, jack thorne, london, old vic, play, review, scrooge, stephen mangan, telegraph, theatre
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An Open Book: Bruce McCall
Polo played in surplus First World War tanks; zeppelin shooting as a gentlemanly leisure pursuit; mighty vessel RMS Tyrannic, proud host of the Grand Ballroom Chariot Race and so safe “that she carries no insurance”. These are just some of … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged america, artist, author, biography, book, bruce mccall, canadian, caribbean, comic book, cover, dickens, fiction, history, illustrator, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Masefield, magazine, nabokov, national lampoon, new yorker, nonfiction, Ogden Nash, patrick leigh fermor, poem, poet, poetry, read, reading, retrofuturism, satire, saturday night live, saul bellow, shouts and murmurs, writer, zany afternoons
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Communicating Doors, Menier Chocolate Factory
Genre mixing is a perilous business. Successful hybrids use duelling forms to re-contextualise or revolutionise; others wind up fatally diluting their disparate elements. Ayckbourn’s 1994 sci fi comedy thriller – featuring, at its nadir, a farcical defenestration mistaken for a … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged Alan Ayckbourn, blithe spirit, comedy, communicating doors, crime, david bamber, dickens, dominatrix, drama, farce, faust, hotel, husband, imogen stubbs, lindsay posner, london, menier chocolate factory, murder, noir, paradox, play, rachel tucker, review, s&m, sci fi, science fiction, sex, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, time travel, time warp, wife
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All sugar, no spice
There once lived a towering creative genius with the power to change children’s lives, who believed in both embracing the euphoria of silliness and relishing the very nasty consequences of natural justice. That statement applies to Willy Wonka, beloved titan … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged adaptation, benefits, book, charlie and the chocolate factory, children, chocolate, david greig, dickens, douglas hodge, drama, film, hairspray, kardashian, Marc Shaiman, matilda, musical, oliver!, pension, play, review, roald dahl, sam mendes, Scott Wittman, song, theatre, tim minchin, west end, willy wonka
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