Norfolk Bookworm

Cosmonauts Birth of the Space Age, Science Museum, London. February 2016. Regular readers of this blog will know that I am pretty inter...

Red Velvet, The Garrick Theatre, London. February 2016. After the disastrous visit to the Garrick to see The Winter's Tale last No...

Ellen Terry with Eileen Atkins, The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre, London. February 2016. In the first year of my MA one...

Thinking about the classics A close friend has just started a new blog which can be found here , and is well worth a read. She is much ...

Mr Foote's Other Leg, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. January 2016. The joy of a weekend in London means the chance to see more tha...

Guys and Dolls, Savoy Theatre, London. January 2016. January and seeing a musical starring Jamie Parker is starting to become a traditio...

Pericles, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre, London. January 2016. My new semi regular theatre companion and I made the trip ...

Sleeping Beauty and the Daleks, The Blakeney Players, Blakeney. January 2016. as ever this isn't an impartial review - after all I d...

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Live Tour, Norwich Theatre Royal, January 2016. Hurrah! 2016 is going to be as theatre-filled a...

My favourite theatre 2015. In 2015 I made 39 trips to the theatre and saw 37 plays, and it seems that this year there were a lot more ...

Better late than never but I am always wary of posting this too early and then reading the best book of the year on 31st December (it has...

Return to the Secret Garden - Holly Webb. Warning this blog post may contain spoilers - but as these are plot points from books publish...

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson. After my recent trip to see Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale  and being a little disappoi...

Daily Dip In  All year Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have been dipping into the wonderful The Wrong Kind of Snow, which was a great find in ...

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 ...