Norfolk Bookworm

Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera House, London. March 2017. It hasn't been that long since I saw the Glyndebourne version of this oper...

Travesties, Apollo Theatre, London. March 2017. After the wonderful performance of Hamlet  in the afternoon there was always a danger t...

Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, London. March 2017. Reading back through this blog it becomes obvious that while I love Shakespeare seeing the...

The Norfolkbookworm Birth Year Reading Challenge  Being 40 later this month it would have been far too easy just to say that my readin...

It has now been almost a year since I finished my MA and have been able to read what every I've wanted. Sure there have been some book...

Mamma Mia! Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2017. I wrote about seeing this show , with my mum, when we went to New York and in that revie...

A week doing nothing! Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just spent a week in Tenerife where the only thing on the agenda was relaxing. For m...

Reading Allowed: True Stories & Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library by Chris Paling. This book should be given to everyone ...

February was another book filled month for me and for the first time in a while when I've looked back through my journal I can see tha...

Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes, Theatre Royal, Norwich. February 2017. As has become clear to regular blog readers I have developed...

Hidden Figures (film and book) Here's something you don't often hear the Norfolkbookworm say - the movie was as good as the boo...

The White Devil, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. February 2017. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse really is the per...

Finding Black Beauty by Lou Kuenzler After the success of Holly Webb's Return to the Secret Garden  I ventured back in to the work ...

The Simon and Garfunkel Story, The Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone. February 2017. I first saw this show in 2015 and even back then I knew...

Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele. Edited by Francis French. I've read an awful lot of biographies and autobiograph...

I read lots of books in January and while none of them were bad nothing stood out quite as much as Take Courage  which I did review at the...

Heaven and Hell Tour, Shakespeare's Globe, London. January 2017. As regular readers of this blog know the Globe and Sam Wanamaker The...

She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory, London. January 2017. After the confusion that was Nice Fish  I was certainly a little bit nervo...

Nice Fish, Harold Pinter Theatre, London. January 2017. This was a play that Rebecca and I booked to see solely because it had Mark Ryl...

Murder, Margaret & Me, The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. January 2017. I hadn't planned on a midweek excursion to the theatre ...