Review of Spiers & Boden in the Back Yard Songs Tour added. See link. On their Back Yard Songs Tour they agreed they would do some purely local songs which were new to them in each venue on the tour. A truly exhilerating evening of English folk at its very best.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Review of Star Trek Into Darkness added here.

The Great Gatsby

Released today in the UK, and The Great Gatsby is reviewed here. This review is really out on a limb … it’s actually positive among the rush of bad reviews the film is picking up. I liked it.

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The Misanthrope

Review added of Roger McGough’s version of The Misanthrope. This was truly “The Misanthrope without Alceste” as the lead role had to be replaced by an actor reading aloud from the handheld script. This makes it hard to judge the intrinsic quality of McGough’s script, but our conclusion, in spite of ecstatic reviews elsewhere, was “an interesting production, with good ideas, of a poor version of the play.”

As You Like It

Review of Royal Shakespeare Company production 2013  of As You Like It added.

Hamlet RSC 2013

Review of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company, featuring Jonathan Slinger as Hamlet & Pippa Nixon as Ophelia added

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Loudon Wainwright III

Review of Loudon Wainwright III at Poole Lighthouse added. See link. The support act Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou were the highlight of the evening for me.