Norfolk Bookworm

Book review: My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff Electronic proof from Netgalley.com. UK publication date 5th June 2014 . A few years ag...

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue recording, Theatre Royal Norwich. April 2014. Radio comedy often beats that on the television hands d...

Book Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E Smith. After being a little underwhelmed by my last Bookbridgr book I'm plea...

An afternoon with an astronaut. In better weather than last autumn Mr Norfolkbookworm and I once more made the cross country trip to Po...

The Malcontent. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. April 2014. The Malcontent  is almost an experiment by the SWP/Globe as it is perf...

We Will Rock You. The Dominion Theatre, London. April 2014. Some of my earliest musical memories are of Queen songs and they are a band...

Blithe Spirit. Gielgud Theatre, London. April 2014. I was joined by an old friend, Jo, for this play - she is another person that indul...

Cats. Theatre Royal Norwich. April 2014. Although my love of theatre did start a while ago with musicals (a trip to see Les Miserables ...

Book review: The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements Supplied through the Bookbridgr.com scheme. Although book reviews have been fea...

Propeller's The Comedy of Errors, Theatre Royal Norwich. March 2014. I've heard a lot about Propeller over the past few years a...

War Horse (National Theatre Live: Cinema City) New London Theatre, March 2014. Regular readers of the blog will know that this is one o...

London and Stratford-upon-Avon It is coming around to essay time again and this term we can't just rely on books so I've spent ...

Book Review: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison I've been spending a lot of time on trains just lately and this is great (as long ...

Book Review: How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis This book nearly passed me by, but thanks to a tweet pointing me towards an excerpt ...

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. March 2014. The last play of the weekend was at the beautiful Sam Wa...

Red Velvet, The Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London. March 2014. With surprising ease we managed to cross London, find our hotel and then...

Oh What A Lovely War, Stratford East, London. March 2014. March - the month of madness, well it was this past weekend as Rebecca and I ...

Book Review: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. Fannie Flagg wrote the the book that one of my favourit...

Pixar in Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London. February 2014. You know that you've infected your entire family with a theatre bug whe...

King Lear, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London. February 2014. This was very much a group outing with Mr Norfolkbookworm joining ...