Norfolk Bookworm

Book review: Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop A couple of years ago I read and reviewed Victoria Hislop's last book...

Jess and Joe Forever, The Garage, Norwich. October 2016. A very brief review on line had me wishing I could see this in London and I go...

The Boys in the Band, Park Theatre, Finsbury, London. October 2016. Perhaps not enjoying the comedy Greek play had me offending the tra...

Cambridge Greek Plays 2016, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge. October 2016. I can't believe that three years have already gone pas...

An afternoon with Colonel Chris Hadfield, National Space Centre, Leicester. October 2016. After the joys of meeting and hearing the Kel...

Space Lecture's Autumn Event: Mark and Scott Kelly. October 2016. Another first for the amazing Space Lectures team - not one, but ...

The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare's Globe, London. October 2016. I saw this last year and reviewed it very favourably  here . In ...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. September 2016. I'm used to walking into ...

Georgia O'Keefe, Tate Modern, London. September 2016. I discovered O'Keefe's work through Ansel Adams. They took inspiratio...

Pride and Prejudice, Theatre Royal, Norwich. September 2016. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Norfolkbookworm had not re...

  Exploring the locations of a favourite book. Last year I read When Marnie Was There  by Joan G Robinson on Mr Norfolkbookworm's r...

Doctor Faustus, The Barbican, London. September 2016. I'm easily swayed into going to the theatre and this time it was my friend th...

Growing Old Disgracefully. I can't stop talking about this book it is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole meeting the 100 Year Old Man W...

Number crunching the books. A near disaster with a glass of water and 11 years of  reading diaries saw me decide to type up all the boo...

The Deep Blue Sea, Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre, London. August 2016. This was a play we were lucky to get seats at, and typical...

All too often you find me on here bemoaning the fact that once I am back from holiday I find it hard to get back into reading again. I...

Half a Sixpence, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester. August 2016. This was our annual outing with Mr Norfolkbookworm's aunt to...

Boys Will Be Boys, Bush Theatre at the Bush Hall, London. July 2016. This was my final event of a busy few days (three plays/shows, one...

Shakespeare in Ten Acts, The British Library, London. July 2016. In the year that I finished my MA and 400th anniversary of the Bard...

Richard III, Almeida Theatre, London. July 2016. This was the third version of Shakespeare's Richard III that Rebecca and I have se...