Tag Archives: drama

“The Jewel IS India”

I’m working my way through a recently acquired box-set of The Jewel in the Crown. For those unfamiliar with the famous 1984 Granada TV series, I say – go and buy this now. It is quite simply the greatest TV drama ever made – a ‘last days of the empire’ epic set in 1940s British India, andContinue reading ““The Jewel IS India””

Hamlet at The Donmar

  Last night Sarah and I went to see Grandage’s Hamlet at The Donmar – well, The Wyndham Theatre anyway. I generally hate the West End, but there you go.   It was, of course, Jude Law as the Dane. I have a specific – if slightly tenuous – reason to see this: my mother was JudeContinue reading “Hamlet at The Donmar”