Tag: English literature
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Arcadia, Old Vic
Tuesday 24th February 2026
reviewTom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece revived in a highly enjoyable, often luminous, p…
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Bird Grove, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 23rd February 2026
reviewAlexi Kaye Campbell’s new play tells the story of George Eliot’s early struggle …
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Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x), Soho Theatre
Friday 16th January 2026
reviewEdinburgh Fringe banger about class in Liverpool and Cambridge arrives in London…
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Porn Play, Royal Court
Thursday 13th November 2025
reviewAnother over-hyped new play: this time about porn addiction, but superficially i…
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Romans: A Novel, Almeida Theatre
Wednesday 17th September 2025
reviewAlice Birch’s latest is a wildly epic family drama that is a uniquely extraordin…
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The Literary Gaze
Sunday 1st June 2025
writingHere is a sample from the introduction to my latest book about postwar British t…
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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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When You Pass Over My Tomb
Thursday 22nd February 2024
blogText of the day: “No.”
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Northanger Abbey
Friday 9th February 2024
blogText of the day: “We do not exist after all.”
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