In the world of ‘real people’
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews INVINCIBLE at DONCASTER CAST ‘Entertaining tragedy’ is what playwright Torben Betts likes to create, interspersed with farcical comedy. Invincible certainly give ...
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Mike Leigh directs an opera for the first time
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance at London Coliseum Hopes were high that ENO might have an artistic and financial success to equal Jonathan Miller’s long-running production of The ...
Timothy Spall’s performance as Turner is something special
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Mr TURNER (Entertainment One). Mike Leigh’s improvised and poetic portrait of a great artist (1795-1855) often looks like paintings by Turner. The film covers th ...
Joyce Glasser reviews the BAFTAs 2015
BAFTA, whose last link with the film industry stalwarts that lent it its prestige, Richard Attenborough, died last year, put itself on the map when it moved its award ceremony to a position between th ...