Review

Tim Walker reviews A Christmas Carol, streaming from the Charles Dickens Museum on December 31 I missed catching up with old friends over Christmas, not least Scrooge and Dick Whittington. I’d written the latter gentleman’s name in my diary half-heartedly as I knew there was a fair chance the reunion wasn’t going to happen. Sure enough, when […]

Theatre critic TIM WALKER reviews a new production of Jack and the Beanstalk, which can be viewed at selected cinemas and online Heaven only knows what Peter Duncan’s neighbours made of what they saw going on in his garden in recent months. The former Blue Peter star got it into his head to make a Christmas panto that […]

‘A Very Expensive Poison’ is about as guttural and stereotypical as six straight shots of vodka, writes TIM WALKER Tom Brooke as Alexander Litvinenko and MyAnna Buring as Marina in A Very Expensive Poison – Credit: Archant With colour- and even gender-blind casting now commonplace in the world of the theatre, I’m not sure if […]