Author Archives: Emily Garside

The Drowned ManThis week I finally got to see Punchdrunk’s latest offering “The Drowned Man” even typing that I wonder is ‘see’ the right word? Probably not. Experienced perhaps? Lived? Survived even? It’s not anything you do as passively as ‘see’ there is nothing passive about it, as three hours of running up and downContinueContinue reading “Punchdrunk ‘Drowned Man’”

I’ve written this because I can’t articulate my feelings about the NT50 celebration in any kind of social media format, and because even after sleeping on it I can’t stop thinking about it.I love the National Theatre, it’s been a focus of my research for over three years now, and it’s very much at theContinueContinue reading “The National at 50”

So the National Theatre is 50 years old today.The National is an important theatre to me. All theatres are important so this one is maybe ‘special’. I’ve spent the last three years researching a production that took place there, I’ve written conference papers on performances there and all but absorbed the entire history in theContinueContinue reading “The National Theatre…50 years young?”

A conference and working weekend in London meant I got to see some theatre (of course)The Magistrate (National Theatre) I was mulling over whether to see the latest NT Live broadcast which was this play and realised I was in London for it. So as tickets were about the same price to see it actually in the theatre IContinueContinue reading “Reviews: A Magistrate, A horse and some Privates on Parade”

A weekend in London (I can’t help but sing that to the tune of ‘A weekend in the country’ but that’s just me….)55 Days, Hampstead TheatreThis is one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve seen in a long time, I wish I could get to see it again because there’s a lot to takeContinueContinue reading “Reviews: 55 Days”

I did resolve to use this blog for more reviews, so here goes…Our Boys by Jonathan LewisI went to see this as a Birthday outing for a friend who is rather fond of Lawrence Fox, as it happened this play also had Arthur Darvill of Dr Who fame and Matthew Lewis of Harry Potter fame. I was expectingContinueContinue reading “Review: Our Boys,”

I plan on using this blog to do more reviews as I reason I see a lot of theatre and blogging about it rather than  just my general moans occasionally makes for more interesting reading.I also quite pride myself on my critical eye when it comes to theatre-seeing through the hype and also giving creditContinueContinue reading “Without You (Review of sorts)”

I’m back from New York, and will get to blogging about that, but priorities and all that-first I’m posting reviews of what I saw. It’s a lot-I saw ten shows along with the six recordings of shows I saw as research. However this was quite a disappointing trip theatre wise-not with what I actually sawContinueContinue reading “New York-Theatre Reviews”

“All those daydreams become fantasies rather than possibilities”That’s a quote from one of my favourite films ‘Third Star’ highly recommend it (have tissues at the ready). It’s a highly accurate quote, and while I for the most part stopped dreaming of the big things a while ago (I think it’s called your mid twenties) I had thought myContinueContinue reading “No more daydreams”

Little review of ‘Little Dogs’ or ‘How I went to the pub with Arthur Darvill’So me ‘The Watson’  (as regular readers of this blog may know her) and another work colleague took a road trip to Swansea in the rain (is there any other kind?) to see National Theatre of Wales/Frantic Assembly’s ‘Little Dogs’. OurContinueContinue reading “Sex Swansea and Sian Phillips”