Post-War Chancers and Furious Housewives: Adaptation and The Merry Wives of Windsor
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, one of my research projects at the moment is an investigation of the …
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A Guru in the Way: Mapp and Lucia, Episode Two, starring Harish Patel
The second instalment of the new BBC Mapp and Lucia lived up completely to the promise of the first, and …
So Pure and Rational An Attachment: Women, Sex and the Duchess of Malfi on the Victorian Stage
The new issue of Victorian Network just came out, and it includes an article I wrote on the performance of …
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
Doing the Reichenbach Falls as part of the Sherlock series? I love it. The idea is so self-indulgent, such a …
Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville
So, Sherlock takes on one of the classics. The Hound of the Baskervilles becomes The Hounds of Baskerville. Say what …
The Big Lad in The Checks: One Man Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, starring James Corden
Richard Bean (author of The English Game) and James Corden (co-writer and star of Gavin and Stacey), two guys with …
Wan Spectre: The Woman in White on stage
First of all, Wilkie Collins’ Victorian sensation novel The Woman in White is not the same as Susan Hill’s ghost …
The Most Modern Prometheus: Nick Dear’s Frankenstein, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller
Nick Dear’s new adaptation of Frankenstein for the National Theatre was an extremely successful play before the show even opened. …
Backstage and Back Biting: Star Quality by Noel Coward
There’s a feeling you get about ten minutes into a Noel Coward play. The lights have come up, the set …
Danse Macabre: Matthew Bourne’s Gothic Sleeping Beauty
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the classic narrative to produce …
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