"Holding space with the undead" Theatre review: Dracula (Noël Coward Theatre) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Somehow even more wildly homoerotic than it was the first time around" Theatre review: American Psycho partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Jumps between the domestic comparisons to modern man and the brutal reality of our ancestors' lives" Theatre review: The Shitheads partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"I'm not saying he has major Dead Kid Symbolism, but he's dressed as Robert Sean Leonard as Puck in Dead Poets Society" Theatre review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"A financial thriller where you can't predict what's round the next corner" Theatre review: Man and Boy partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

I didn't know she'd worked on a farm.

"The way it muses on science and poetry makes the audience feel clever, as opposed to sneered at" Theatre review: Arcadia partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Like spending 100 minutes in the closing moments of Rent" Theatre review: Beautiful Little Fool partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Leaving you feeling like you've watched a story of hope, however many times its narrators assure you of the contrary" Theatre review: Maggots partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Revelling in its own stupidity" Theatre review: "Oh, Mary!" partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

"Goes somewhere a lot more human and moving" Theatre review: Guess How Much I Love You? partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

The Globe's doing Dream, Much Ado AND As You Like It this summer? I thought they'd finally climbed out of the combined Enema Rice / Covid financial hole?

Deborah Mailman's headshot was definitely up on Jane Plough's wall.

"I'm having an existential breakdown after betraying everything I stand for BUT ALSO I'M HORNY." Theatre review: High Noon partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

"Levi has a bad matinée and reaches straight for the crystal meth wow that escalated quickly" Theatre review: Already Perfect partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

"It mainly stays in a comic lane, but does let in a more quietly moving, thoughtful slant" Theatre review: Most Favoured partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

New drag name: Petroleum Jenny.

Jade: "I'm the most persecuted player in Traitors history!" Me: "There's someone called Jade on The Traitors?!" #TheTraitorsUK

"They start his downfall by letting him play exactly by his own rulebook" Stage-to-screen review: Good Night, and Good Luck partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/stag...

"An underrated sub-genre of ghost story" Theatre review: A Ghost in Your Ear partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

They're not *that* busy any more, Tess.

BTW it was actually Very Tasteful Gentlemen's Art #TheTraitorsUK

Honestly the actual players are putting the producers' twists to shame this year #TheTraitorsUK l

Tell you what, Harriet's crime novels are going to have a sales spike given how well she's been reading the traitors #TheTraitorsUK

Everyone: "I voted Jessie as the nicest." Roxy: "Guys I'm not being big-headed but I think it's probably me." #TheTraitorsUK

Stephen burning his bridges with The Thirsty GaysTM with that murder shortlist #TheTraitorsUK

Coming up on tomorrow's episode of #TheTraitorsUK:

Fiona is the most deranged agent of chaos ever in a programme that's thrived on them #TheTraitorsUK

Did James get consent from Reece to hug him in consolation for all the heat on him THAT HE INSTIGATED FROM THE START? #TheTraitorsUK

Amanda on the case #TheTraitorsUK

The only way Amanda's the "top detective" after picking a Traitor as her confidante is if she's Columbo, and is making the killer think they're the sidekick #TheTraitorsUK

Poor Reece. "I really want to be safe tonight." "HE MUST BE A TRAITOR!" "It's OK, make someone else safe tonight." "HE MUST BE A TRAITOR!" #TheTraitorsUK

Yabba Dabba Cunt #TheTraitorsUK

James' eye-rolling "obviously" when his name was announced, as if we didn't already know the list, is there a level of unbearable he won't scale? #TheTraitorsUK

"Reece: Sweet Shop Assistant" gives me "SELLS EGGS AND SWEETS" every time #TheTraitorsUK

Yeah, revealing the Secret Traitor this early makes sense when it's the person who's spent every VT so far winking at the camera "ooh, it's good to be a Faithful OR AM I?" #TheTraitorsUK

"The play could be expressed as a series of hauntings" Theatre review: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

(Largely incoherent) first review of 2026 coming in the next couple of days. In the meantime why not catch up with my (comparatively coherent) roundup of 2025?

That's got to be the earliest the UK version has ever found a Traitor, right? #TheTraitorsUK

A lot of focus on their dinners this series. That lamb shank got so much screentime last night I thought it might be the Secret Traitor #TheTraitorsUK

Not sure if I should say Matthew seems incredibly familiar to me in case it turns out he's been in Gentlemen's Films #TheTraitorsUK

"I can't spell names" well you're on the right show #TheTraitorsUK

Right, when's she doing a piece to camera saying she doesn't really stammer? #TheTraitorsUK

Wow, those Stranger Things kids murdered *a lot* of people, huh?

Stranger Things (2016-2026)

HNY! (Starting the year with all the energy I plan to put into the rest of it.)

Oh good, the fireworks have started before it's even dark yet, that bodes well for the rest of the night.

2025: Nick's Theatre Review of the Year partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

"One of the better attempts to bring some of the fun of horror to the stage" Theatre review: Paranormal Activity partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/12/thea...

"A play that takes risks, with the resulting mix of success and failure" Theatre review: Christmas Day partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/12/thea...