Norfolk Bookworm

My friend the Upstartwren has got me thinking again as she blogged recently about books and mental health. I found myself nodding along...

Space Lectures' Spring 2016 Event: General Tom Stafford. Months and months ago the brilliant Space Lectures team in Pontefract anno...

Graphic Novels / Travel Writing from Guy Delisle While I am renowned for reading anything and everything (cereal packets if there are n...

Cymbeline, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. March 2013. This was my final trip to this season at the Sam Wanam...

The Tempest, Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, London. March 2016. After seeing such a good production of this in the ma...

Spring Break! Mr Norfolkbookworm and I are just back from a week away in the sun. We both needed a break and the intention was to sit a...

King Charles III, Theatre Royal Norwich, Norwich. March 2016. A busy ten days of plays finished with another trip to my local theatre t...

The Winter's Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakesepeare's Globe, London. March 2016. After last autumn's less than brilli...

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2016. Talking about this production is hard, it isn't that I di...

The Lion King, Lyceum Theatre, London. March 2016. Many years ago my sister and I saw this but at the time all we could manage were sea...

Hangmen, from the Wyndhams Theatre, National Theatre Live at Cinema City. This was a play that had been on my radar for a while but one...

Buzz Aldrin in Conversation with Brian Cox, The Science Museum, London. February 2016. We didn't think we were going to get to this...

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...