Tag: Charles Dickens
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London Tide
Tuesday 21st May 2024
blogText of the day: “This is a story of a city; rolling fog and moonlight.”
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London Tide
Sunday 28th April 2024
blogText of the day: “The dawn comes on,/ and the blood-red sun on the eastern marsh…
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London Tide, National Theatre
Thursday 18th April 2024
reviewNew play-with-songs version of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend is a panoramic Victor…
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A Sherlock Carol, Marylebone Theatre
Thursday 30th November 2023
reviewSeasonal Eng Lit mash-up returns with its festive message of forgiveness, but it…
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About December
Wednesday 30th December 2020
blogYesterday I watched the streamed version of December, written and directed by Al…
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A Christmas Carol, Bridge Theatre
Monday 7th December 2020
reviewThe Dickens classic, as adapted by this venue’s artistic director, is an example…
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A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Bridge Theatre
Tuesday 23rd October 2018
reviewVery very very feeble: Martin McDonagh’s latest is poorly written, self-plagiari…
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Saint George and the Dragon, National Theatre
Thursday 19th October 2017
reviewNew historical epic about Englishness grandly takes to the Olivier stage, and em…
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Stephen Grosz on change
Wednesday 3rd September 2014
blogQuote of the day: “Scrooge doesn’t change because he’s frightened — he changes b…
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