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Dead Ends @ The Ministry of Stories
Although novelists can come up with a justification for almost any procrastinatory activity (I need to eat this cake! My protagonist loves cake!), we can …
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Deathstyle @ The School of Life
I am afraid of death. Deeply, wibblingly, atheistically afraid. Terrified of losing my consciousness (not to mention my Whistles green silk shirt) forever more. I …
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The Hollow Crown @ The BBC
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more. Only this time bring us proper screen stars. Poirot; The Pope; Loki; that lawyer lass off …
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Naturally 7 @ Barbican Centre
Surprisingly, my husband manages to fit in a job other than me. He works for AEG, proud owner of the O2 and other impressively echoey …
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Hamlet @ Young Vic
Ian Rickson‘s new Hamlet at the Young Vic contained a lot of firsts for me. It was the first time I’ve been …
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Gerhard Richter @ Tate Modern
It was a bit of a duty trip. I was suffering a Halloween party hangover and the afternoon was not unpleasantly sliding into a sloth-marathon …
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The Great Gatsby
Reading a really famous book for the first time is a strange experience.
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The Centaur and the Animal @ Sadlers Wells
I didn’t have many expectations about The Centaur and The Animal. What is one supposed to expect from a show that purports to combine …
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Trust Agents
Disoriented? Intrigued? You’ve just gatejumped.
As soon as you read this URL in the International Journal of Advertising, and typed it …
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La Bête @ Comedy Theatre
I was in need of a giggle.
Sure, Michael Attenborough’s production of Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida had its moments of bleak, …
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Gifford’s Circus
I’ve never been the most acrobatic of Blondes. By the age of thirteen my limbs were already outstripping my nervous system, and my favourite part …
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Gaza/Guernica @ Soho Theatre
There are people like me, who love going to the theatre, thinking and writing about theatre, and have dabbled as a practitioner in the past. …
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Mark Morris Dance Group @ Royal Opera House
There are some songs you cannot listen to without dancing. Go on, I challenge you: any MJ. The Killers’s Human. Jimi’s All …
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Sweet Tooth
This seems the exact thing to ease us into evening.
It simply demands a whiskey sour and a big slice of Battenburg. But before …
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Krystle Warren @ Soho Theatre
As those who read my previous post might suspect, I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity in the past couple of weeks. It all started …


