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THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY

- 28 October 2025

There’s ambition and then there’s AMBITION, and to set about creating a stage version of...

SAFE SPACE

- 18 October 2025

It’s always fascinating to see a new play, especially at a time when so much...

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

- 15 October 2025

I am amongst those lucky enough to have seen this beautiful Peter Hall production of...

LA BOHEME

- 12 October 2025

I’m often asked what would be the best introduction to opera and without fail I...

2:22

- 7 October 2025

Seeing a play, a ghost story, for a second time has its pitfalls. Do you...

SEA WALL & WMD: WOMAN OF MASS DECEPTION

- 4 October 2025

Licensing conditions are in place that prohibit me from reviewing Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall. First...

THE LIGHTNING THIEF

- 1 October 2025

Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...

SPRING AWAKENING

- 29 September 2025

This extraordinary work, Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Wedekind’s first major play Frühlings Erwachen, must have...

CÉST MAGNIFIQUE

- 27 September 2025

Ooh la la! Take a stage, probably less than four metres square in size, and...

LORD OF THE FLIES

- 26 September 2025

Golding’s novel sits so firmly in my childhood memory, a curriculum classic that at the...

HAMLET

- 19 September 2025

Three works by Shakespeare in one year, first the splendid revival of Nicholas Hytner’s A...

CARNE

- 15 September 2025

It’s been a while since I wrote about food here on the Latest website, but...




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