Andrzej Łukowski

eldest has just read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath and then I explained what happened in Boneland to him and he looked at me like I was mad

‘avant-Rattigan’

I normally start aggressively doubting myself when I like something that everyone else hates, but I think in this instance the NT’s Man and Boy is simply about as ‘me’ coded as theatre gets

exactly! Expecting sun = the Dubaification of our culture

am I the only person in this country who thinks the weather's been absolutely fine so far this year

although feels like a complicated final twist when it says he’s survived by his SIX children

noooooo not Dawson!

Man and Boy, National Theatre Dorfman review: An extraordinary performance from Ben Daniels powers this revelatory take on Terence Rattigan’s finance drama Man and Boy is never going to displace The Deep Blue Sea or The Browning Version or even French without Tears as the quintessential Terence Rattigan work. But t

Great review of MAN AND BOY @nationaltheatre.org.uk that expresses very much my view of this revelatory production that frees Rattigan from scenographic conservatism. @mrlukowski.bsky.social
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thanks Dan! A fine programme essay etc

also the acting credits are part of the set and light up with the names of whoever’s on stage – this should become the norm now, you cannot fight progress

Man and Boy, National Theatre Dorfman review: An extraordinary performance from Ben Daniels powers this revelatory take on Terence Rattigan’s finance drama Man and Boy is never going to displace The Deep Blue Sea or The Browning Version or even French without Tears as the quintessential Terence Rattigan work. But t

five stars from me for Anthony Lau’s wild ride free jazz Rattigan, with an incredible performance from Ben Daniels www.timeout.com/london/theat...

lol this is the most American sentence ever written - yes, what could you possibly do with half a bottle of wine other than throw it out or cook with it

Richard Chamberlain on X: "As well as the Euro 96 book, I'm working on a football video games in the 90s book. Just stumbled upon this competition in a 1998 Playstation mag. You can win £2,000! How to enter? Er, send a picture of your girlfriend in the bath. File this under, you wouldn't get away with this https://t.co/tm8svexkG2" / X As well as the Euro 96 book, I'm working on a football video games in the 90s book. Just stumbled upon this competition in a 1998 Playstation mag. You can win £2,000! How to enter? Er, send a picture of your girlfriend in the bath. File this under, you wouldn't get away with this https://t.co/tm8svexkG2

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wow this is genuinely upsettingly horrible – the staff of PlayStation magazine in 1998 soliciting bath pics of readers’ girlfriends in exchange for prizes

yeah I think as a classic ‘Everything Must Go came out when I was 14 then got into Holy Bible’ fan I always found the early stuff - bar obvious singles - a bit baffling. But they must have been so much fun to be a fan of in the early 90s. And enjoying the scrappiness a lot now!

friends fear he’s going through an ‘early Manics phase’

(apart from the second epilogue, which is more of an endurance test than the entire preceding novel)

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Not only do I admire the commitment here but the write up is also very funny:

'now let me talk about farfalle: farfalle is not pasta. farfalle is a design flaw someone decided to mass produce'

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that McKellen speech going viral: yes, great to know Shakespeare/Hand D was a dude; but really just delighted (a small, liberal corner of) the internet is being exposed to some some really top notch VERSE SPEAKING

Lost Atoms, Lyric Hammersmith review: Virtuosic staging from Frantic Assembly elevates this gripping account of a couple’s rise and fall If you staged it as a radio play, Anna Jordan’s Lost Atoms would be a skilled but conventional story of a relationship, from meet cute through to heavily foresh

Lost Atoms by Frantic Assembly is very enjoyable, a soapy story of a couple’s ups and downs given a big extra kick by the fact they spend the whole time clambering over a gigantic filing cabinet www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Arcadia, Old Vic review: intimate revival of Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Carrie Cracknell’s intimate revival of Stoppard’s masterpiece has its flaws – but it’s just so good to have this astonishing play back on the stage

I think Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is probably the perfect play, which doesn’t necessarily make it that easy to stage well, but fundamentally it is pretty amazing to have Arcadia back www.timeout.com/london/theat...

fair! Interesting if that is literally it or if they do a lil Trojan war recap

funny if all this fuss was over a brief flashback cameo; also funny if they’ve bulked up her role and made her odysseus’ sassy sidekick

my big question about the christopher nolan helen of troy casting is what is helen of troy doing in the odyssey

tbf the great British public would probably tolerate actual fascism if he was proposing £2 off a pint but 5p is… basically meaningless, surely

a fun fact about REM (the band) is that their name doesn’t actually stand for anything and indeed they had to tell off some early promoter or other for writing 'rapid eye movement' on a concert poster

‘if it’s news TO SOMEBODY, it’s news’ - CP Scott

John Proctor is the Villain, Royal Court Theatre: This high school-set, Crucible-riffing Broadway smash transfers to the Royal Court There are three obvious ‘wow’ moments in the Royal Court Theatre’s seventieth birthday programme. Two are starry revivals of classic plays from the theatre’s pa

Sadie S will be playing the lead role in the Royal Court transfer of John Proctor is the Villain! No, not THAT Sadie S www.timeout.com/london/theat...

I mean I'm sure it’ll go somewhere relevant, I’m just interested, can’t a man be interested

not that it’s that important but where would Olivier’s plaque BE? it doesn’t seem to say anywhere