I came out of The White Guard today, hopped on my bike and thought I had landed in 28 Days Later. I had misgivings about the Waterloo roundabout, always an insane mess of cars, bikes and other vehicles and there was — no one. I have never seen the streets of London so empty (at…
Category: National Theatre
BitchBuzz: Women Beware Women
My latest column for BitchBuzz is another theatre review: “Men buy their slaves, but women buy their masters.” – Isabella Shakespeare gets all the love when it comes to Elizabethan theatre, but that’s because people tend to forget that the stage was the television of its time, cheap and plentiful, aiming only to get bums…
Review: After the Dance + NT backstage tour
I love the NT! What could it be? Their wide variety of programming? Plays old and new? More female directors in this single building than on the whole of Broadway? So many reasons! I found yet another reason when I took their backstage tour. Yes, I am so enamoured of theatre life that it was…