Norfolk Bookworm

The Nutcracker, Theatre Royal, Norwich, November 2015. An extra mid-week matinee and some hours owing to me at work meant that I could ...

Waste, Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre, London. November 2015. After our recent trip to the disappointing The Winter's Ta...

I am so pleased to find that there are people out there who don't be come quite so awestruck as me in the presence of space legends! T...

The Winter's Tale, Garrick Theatre, London. November 2015. I had such high hopes for this one, and I'd infected my two theatre ...

Handbagged, Theatre Royal, Norwich. November 2015. This was a last minute booking for me and a convenient matinee at the theatre opposi...

Capt. James Lovell lecture, Pontefract. October 2015. Mr Norfolkbookworm and I made the cross country trip back to Pontefract recently ...

The Road to Little Dribbling - Bill Bryson. I can't believe that it is twenty years since the wonderful Notes from a Small Island  ...

Romeo and Juliet, The The Royal Opera House, London. October 2015. Earlier in the year mum and I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Globe  and...

Fallen Glory by James Crawford. I've been wanting to talk about this book for months and months. I read it way back in the summer w...

Medea, Almeida Theatre, London. October 2015. After a surprisingly enjoyable Bakkhai and a throughly disappointing Oresteia I really ...

Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe, London. October 2015. After revisiting Hamlet and possibly enjoying it less than the first visit I...

Hamlet, The Barbican, London. September 2015. I'm late getting this review up, uni has restarted and I had a short break away but e...

The Beaux' Strategem, Oliver Theatre, National Theatre, London. September 2015. After the sadness of War Horse a restoration romp s...

War Horse, New London Theatre, London. September 2015. This trip turned out to be incredibly poignant as while we were ensconced in the...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Theatre Royal, Norwich. September 2015. Back in 2012 Rebecca and I were lucky enough...

The Simon and Garfunkel Story, The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. September 2015. I've been a fan of Simon and Garfunkel's musi...

The Oresteia, Shakespeare's Globe, London. August 2015. With this play Mr Norfolkbookworm and I did something that we've only d...

The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre, London. August 2015. My final show from this past weekend outing to London was to see The ...

Tiddler, Leicester Square Theatre, London. August 2015. After the somewhat disappointmenting Hamlet I was looking forward to my next pl...

Hamlet, The Barbican, London. August 2015. I have to add the disclaimer to this review stating that the production was still in preview...