Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Music
The Turn of the Screw at Glyndebourne, Live Streamed via The Guardian
September 3, 2025Glyndebourne: one of the names in the British calendar. Up there with Wimbledon, Henley and other...
Theatre
Anne Boleyn, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
September 3, 2025Despite the subject matter, and the evident success of the play, the particular style of performance...
Blog-Theater
Butley, at the Duchess Theatre, London
September 1, 2025Where West’s incarnation as Detective McNulty was part of a sprawling, panoramic vision of a social...
Espionage
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
September 1, 2025The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
August 19, 2025But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
July 22, 2025There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Music
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
July 19, 2025Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
July 11, 2025Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
July 4, 2025Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
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