Steven Hoggett Archives

Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan and Tony Jaywardena as Doctor Rain (photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Nye, Olivier (2024)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:9 March 2024
Post category:Play Review West End
Post comments:0 Comments

This Attlee is horrified at Nye’s conflict with the doctors, implores him to stop, calculates the political benefit if Nye were to fail, and withdraws support at a crucial moment. If there was any truth at all in any of this, we would not have the NHS. Nye succeeded because Attlee took the risk of appointing him, to the horror of his senior colleagues, and then backed him to the hilt.

Chanel Waddock as Desdemona and Michael Akinsulire as Othello (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Othello, Lyric Hammersmith (2023)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:29 January 2023
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
Post comments:0 Comments

Gangland Othello " The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that seem to be so and will as tenderly be led by the nose…

Nia Towie as Lettie and James Bamford as the Boy (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Duke of York’s (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 November 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
Post comments:0 Comments

Thrilling for Teenagers, Terrifying for Adults! "It's not an ocean, it's a duck pond!"The Boy James Bamford as the Boy (Photo: Manuel Harlan) Fly Davis's magnificent set is a mysterious…