Play
Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre
During a brief private getaway, two women bemoan their confined stations in life and look to books and…
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Play
Dracula at Noël Coward Theatre
It all begins unassumingly, as Cynthia Erivo takes the stage, turns her back to the crowd and begins…
By Thomas Messner
Berlinale
Forest High
“Unable to be silent, I will be long and still”. Arriving during a hushed poetry recitation, it’s as…
By Thomas Messner
Berlinale
Dao
In writing about Dao, Alain Gomis’s highly ambitious sixth feature film, one is tempted to simply rifle through…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
2,000 Metres to Andriivka
For those of us fortunate enough never to have entered a warzone, there are primary reference points to…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
GOAT
It’s a curious thing to watch Pixar become the old guard, but when it comes to just what…
By Thomas Messner
Musical
Cable Street at Marylebone Theatre
Come the end of a plaintive ballad contemplating the gulf between complacency and resistance, a soft-spoken Jewish patriarch…
By Thomas Messner
Play
High Noon at Harold Pinter Theatre
Come the midway point of High Noon, a new staging of the much-loved Gary Cooper-Grace Kelly Western, two…
By Thomas Messner
Play
Twelfth Night at Barbican Theatre
As Feste, fool to the countess Olivia and fourth wall buster in chief of Shakespeare’s immortal farce of…
By Thomas Messner
Movie
The Housemaid
“Just what kind of junk does this want to be?” It’s a question that may trouble you for…
By Thomas Messner