From small screen to big screen
With the recent release of the much hyped Dad’s Army film I was interested to find out how many other television comedies have made it onto the big screen. The critics have not been too enthusiastic a ...
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War and Peace in Imperial Russia from 1805 to 1812
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs WAR AND PEACE (BBC). Leo Tolstoy’s great novel has been staged and filmed many times, most notably by Prokofiev in his opera (premiered in 1943 as propaganda dur ...
Peter Brook returns to the Mahabarata
Robert Tanitch reviews Battlefields at Young Vic, London SE1 Peter Brook’s fame as a theatre director began when he was 20. He is now 90 and still directing. In order to make good contemporary theatre ...
Chekhov is given a modern overhaul
Robert Tanitch reviews Uncle Vanya at Almeida Theatre, London N1. It doesn’t look like Chekhov. It doesn’t sound like Chekhov. Vanya is called John and Astrov is called Michael. Waffles is called Cart ...