Stories By Jem Bloomfield

Sports
Game of the Week: Stanford vs. Oregon — The View from England
February 24, 2026So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per...

Theatre
Theatre Review: John Lithgow Stars in The Magistrate, The National Theatre, London
February 10, 2026Except of course Cis isn’t advanced for his age: when his mother married Posket, she eased...

Dance
Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
February 9, 2026Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the...

Theatre
Less Than Kind by Terence Rattigan: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England.
October 30, 2025It’s Rattigan’s attempt to take the basic Hamlet situation and write a play which is both...

Theatre
Neighbourhood Watch by Alan Ayckbourn. Pre-West End Tour.
October 27, 2025Neighbourhood Watch never feels like an “issue” play, but the London riots, the increasingly draconian Law...

Theatre
Hamlet, starring Michael Sheen at the Young Vic, London
October 21, 2025The psychiatric setting also forces – or helps – the production into a particular vision of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s Wrong With Modern Movies? by Mark Kermode
October 17, 2025His opinions, though held intensely and vocally, are often unpredictable: he has long maintained The Exorcist...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
October 15, 2025So for those who may have been a little lost amidst the religious politics of The...
Blog-Dance
Dance Review: The Nutcracker, English National Ballet at The Coliseum, London
October 13, 2025For once the Mouse King is a genuinely compelling villain: his mask is a giant rodent’s...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
October 13, 2025There may not be space in a blog post to let the reader weigh the words...










