On my Twitter feed this week, my last tweets of 2011 and my first of 2012. Including the customary old-man grumbling about the fireworks marking the bit between the two. Plus, in the absence of any reality TV to pass judgement on, I commented on the adaptation of Great Expectations instead ( Read more... )

This year was so overwhelmingly about theatre trips, even by my standards, that I’ll only be doing the theatre roundup this time around. It’d be nice to do a personal roundup so I guess in 2011 I’ll just have to remember to get a personal life. In the meantime it’s the more memorable shows of the year, for good reasons or bad (with just over 200 ( Read more... )

DISCLAIMERAMA! This is a review of a preview performance, the show officially opens to critics on Wednesday.

So a gay-themed play by an unknown (over here at least) writer gets a big West End production. It's an interesting approach, although (and I want to stress this is nothing to do with my thoughts on the quality of the play or the production ( Read more... )

We're properly into January now, which means new stuff is starting to turn up again on TV and at the theatre; which in turn means I get to write about it. Oh and if it looks like I've fucked up the traditional pink highlighting in these two articles, no I haven't - the wordpress software's been upgraded and Mr. lowculture is still trying to iron ( Read more... )

Yes, I did manage to find the Arcola Theatre without too much trouble in the end. To be honest I think the directions on the theatre's website make it seem harder to find than it actually is. So time for another Ibsen play, this time Ghosts, a play so shocking it was banned when first written. The reason being that it deals with syphilis, and this ( Read more... )

"Celeb spot" of the week was after ...some trace of her on Thursday, where it transpires actor, hottie and bookie's favourite to succeed David Tennant in Doctor Who (no thanks1) Harry Lloyd was also in the audience.

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Now, was there some reason I was particularly looking forward to going to see The Sea last night?

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