Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Theatre
Theatre Review: John Lithgow Stars in The Magistrate, The National Theatre, London
October 8, 2024Except of course Cis isn’t advanced for his age: when his mother married Posket, she eased...
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Dance
Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
October 6, 2024Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the...
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Theatre
Less Than Kind by Terence Rattigan: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England.
June 26, 2024It’s Rattigan’s attempt to take the basic Hamlet situation and write a play which is both...
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Theatre
Neighbourhood Watch by Alan Ayckbourn. Pre-West End Tour.
June 23, 2024Neighbourhood Watch never feels like an “issue” play, but the London riots, the increasingly draconian Law...
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Blog-Theater
Hamlet, starring Michael Sheen at the Young Vic, London
June 19, 2024The psychiatric setting also forces – or helps – the production into a particular vision of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s Wrong With Modern Movies? by Mark Kermode
June 14, 2024His opinions, though held intensely and vocally, are often unpredictable: he has long maintained The Exorcist...
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Books
Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
June 13, 2024So for those who may have been a little lost amidst the religious politics of The...
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Dance
Dance Review: The Nutcracker, English National Ballet at The Coliseum, London
June 11, 2024For once the Mouse King is a genuinely compelling villain: his mask is a giant rodent’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
June 11, 2024There may not be space in a blog post to let the reader weigh the words...
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Blog-Theater
One Man, Two Guvnors, Adelphi Theatre, London
June 10, 2024For this show is funny. I mean, it is really funny. Not the kind of funny...