London’s Savoy Theatre will always be associated with the musical comedies of Gilbert & Sullivan which built it. Their topsy-turvy had to be transporting because the Savoy’s seats were designed…
The May 2011 Harper’s has a superb review of ‘Another Year’ by Francine Prose: ‘Lonely Island: Mike Leigh’s Intimate Cinema’. I’ve praised ‘Another Year’ here and here. I’m…
As the two principal characters of ‘Another Year’, appeared on screen, my wife whispered, ‘It’s so nice to visit Tom and Gerri again.’ And, so it was. …
I’m a character actor. In the United States, that tends to mean old people who play small parts. Here [in the UK] it means anyone who plays people not like…