Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"The lead might be bi but Graham's play is a surprisingly straight biography" Theatre review: The Standard of Living partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/10/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"An evening of whooping, heckling, gasping, shrieking and yaaaas queening to make a 1980s American sitcom audience sound demure" Theatre review: Table 17 partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/10/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Watching how the big game of deception plays out to rules only half the players know" Theatre review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/10/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Young Rob is such a star that their adult self has a job to do keeping up" Theatre review: My Son's a Queer, (But what can you... partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 001
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Oscar-winning ham hock" Theatre review: Tartuffe (Remixed) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Friends Fear He's Already Working On His Terrible Pun About Looking At Damien Molony's Coriolanus. 011
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The blossoming from dead branches into colour is really effectively done" Theatre review: As You Like It (Shakespeare's Globe) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet." Theatre review: Golden Boy partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"More the Whispering Twenties than the Roaring ones" Theatre review: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sure, murder is bad *in theory* but hear me out: Cyclists who run the red light then ring their bell at the pedestrians crossing to get out of their way. 001
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"You've got to admire a certain amount of - admittedly misguided - chutzpah" Theatre review: Thelma & Louise partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Some interesting ideas flying around even if they don't all land" Theatre review: Night City partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"The growing suspicion that the real sociopath might be right in the middle of the story" Theatre review: The Story partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"It's German, is what I'm saying." Theatre review: Man to Man partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"The only way left to take the story is Essex" Theatre review: Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"Its unapologetic messiness is its charm" Theatre review: Kimberly Akimbo partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 001
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Genuine emotion as well as an unusual amount of humour" Theatre review: Electra/Persona partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Heartbreak and disappointment with a bit of hope and a lot of witty lines" Theatre review: A Month in the Country partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/09/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Unquestionably a throwback, but it undeniably still works" Theatre review: How the Other Half Loves partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wow that park's going to be very quiet, especially for a Sunday. 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"An eccentric little slice of dystopia" Theatre review: A Slow Fire partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Far more universal than the '70s trappings it's presented in" Theatre review: Abigail's Party partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 25/08/2026At least if he struggles to convey "amnesia" they can just ask him what his name is. 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"No, this is probably not a great jumping-on point for anyone who wasn't already familiar with Grrm's universe" Theatre review: Game of Thrones: The Mad King partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Spotted the Heff in Stratford M&S. He's not even in the RSC at the moment, I guess at some point actors just develop a pavlovian need to hunt the yellow-stickered sandwiches on a Saturday afternoon. 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Last time I was in Stratford-upon-Avon I saw them setting up prop barbecues for the GoT play, so now if I don't see a future National Treasure at least lightly toasted on one I'm just going to be disappointed. 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"If Valjean was less Grand Theft Baked Goods, more Power-Crazed Serial Killer" Theatre review: Death Note partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Cats, just one of the C words closely associated with Lloyd Webber" Theatre review: Cats partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 18/08/2026TIL this is the City St George's motto, so of course I have been mentally completing it with "...is a cookbook." 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Engineering the story and the way it'll be told" Stage-to-screen review: Our Town partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/stag... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If "HONK HONK IT'S THE GOVERNMENT HERE, DON'T HAVE A BARBECUE" continues like this all night, Andy Burnham'll be out of a job quicker than Liz Truss. 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Muscular in more ways than one" Dance review: The Car Man partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/danc... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"It's a strange kind of celebration of resilience, even if the play keeps knocking it down." Theatre review: Cleansed partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If anyone was wondering where we are with my ongoing transformation into a nan: I've had to buy a nice cardi because the aircon in the office is too cold. 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"An injection of energy any time the action threatens to slow down" Theatre review: Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare's Globe) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/08/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"It's hard to make a Shock!Twist! out of the basic premise of a 2500-year-old story" Theatre review: The Oresteia partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 001
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I wonder what it's like to start a reply to an email with a phrase other than "as previously noted." 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"With little sense of what could be, we're left mostly with reminders of what no longer is" Theatre review: The Cherry Orchard (RSC/Swan) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 29/07/2026All the Almeida publicity for Cleansed is going "it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see it!" The National did it ten years ago so whose lifetime are they thinking of, a Victorian chimney sweep's? 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 26/07/2026"While a couple have decent tunes, almost all of them are let down by the lyrics": Theatre review: The Jonathan Larson Project partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Train delayed due to some drunken Saturday night revellers trespassing on the tracks. 020
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You read an article in The Independent? How could you see it through the big button telling you to go read a different article in The Independent? 100
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Seems pretty determined to stick to the original message, without engaging with or acknowledging the regression in rights since then" Theatre review: Pride partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"It's down to the odd supporting character to remind us he's ruining lives as a matter of course" Theatre review: Here Comes J. Edgar! partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Acaster taking another opportunity to put the boot in to the new HP cast, you love to see it. 020
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"A very quick, snappy but clear delivery of the lines that propels the evening" Theatre review: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"Tovey is taking us on a wild and disturbing ride" Theatre review: The Guilty partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 000
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Be glad you didn't see the Globe's one then, it was about 90% riffing, 10% Shakespeare. 010
Nick @nick730.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"A lot of charm does come at the expense of the comedy" Theatre review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/07/thea... 110
