Tom Stoppard Archives

Ruby Ashbourne Serkis as Flora Crewe and Gavi Singh Chara as Nitad Das (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Indian Ink, Hampstead Theatre (2025)

Post author:Malcolm Beckett
Post published:21 December 2025
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Superb Revival for the late, great Tom Stoppard's play about India FLORA And it’s called a duck bungalow …MRS SWAN Dak bungalow.FLORA … although there is not a duck to be seen …

Dickie Beau as Oscar Wilde and Simon Russell Beale as AE Housman (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: The Invention of Love, Hampstead (2024)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:18 December 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Immersion in the life of a Classicist and Poet “Sophocles, too; he wrote The Loves of Achilles: more spooniness than you’ll find in a cutlery drawer, I shouldn’t wonder.”AE Housman…

James McArdle as Henry and Bel Powley as Annie. (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: The Real Thing, Old Vic (2024)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:3 September 2024
Post category:Play Review West End

Is Grass Really Greener? Henry - Strauss?Annie - No, it can't be Strauss. It's in ItalianHenry - Ah, then -- VerdiAnnie - Which one?Henry - Giuseppe (he says looking really…