TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThis adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s novel about a woman who keeps on dying and being reborn is so full of grief it can feel overwhelming – but the anguish is irresistible
Ursula Todd can’t stop dying. That’s the premise of this devastating drama, a four-part adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s 2013 novel, which documents its protagonist’s many demises – each as distressing as the last. Born to a wealthy middle-class family in 1910, Ursula dies almost instantly, strangled by her umbilical cord. Read More...
The ObserverBusinessLord of the lap danceJohn Gray has already made millions out of three-minute sexual fantasies. And the golden goose that is Spearmint Rhino just goes on getting fatter, writes Jamie DowardJohn Gray runs his eyes over the gyrating dancer - naked save for a tiny thong - as if he were a farmer eyeing prize livestock. The dancer, who looks Spanish, but is maybe Italian or Greek or any of 20 other nationalities, finishes her routine and then, as protocol demands, waits until her replacement arrives before descending the stairs. Read More...
TheatreReviewLyric Hammersmith, London
Mike Bartlett’s brilliant play follows a couple trying, and failing, to keep family together
‘The personal is political” started out as a feminist rallying call in the 1960s but become a defining slogan for an entire generation. Mike Bartlett’s 2010 drama Love, Love, Love sets out in this era of free-love, second-wave feminism and political idealism to examine the intersections of the personal and political, through the lives of a baby boomer couple. Read More...
