Tag: Victorian literature
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The Invention of Love, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 16th December 2024
reviewTom Stoppard’s classic evocation of Victorian golden age Oxford stars Simon Russ…
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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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Jane Eyre, National Theatre
Wednesday 27th September 2017
reviewWelcome return of Sally Cookson’s stupendous stage adaptation of Charlotte Bront…
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The Woman in White
Monday 14th January 2013
blogText of the day: “It is truly wonderful how easily society can console itself fo…
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Andersen’s English, Hampstead Theatre
Thursday 8th April 2010
reviewDisappointing effort from Sebastian Barry about the meeting of Dickens and Hans …
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On After the War
Thursday 28th May 2009
blogI just started reading, with Pirate Dog curled up at my feet, DJ Taylor’s After …
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