For Blackeyed Theatre ‘The game is afoot’ as Sherlock Holmes decodes The Valley of Fear

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Blackeyed Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear: Filmed (directed by Alex Harvey-Brown) at Bracknell’s Wilde Theatre, 16.9.2022, and available here as a digital stream. (JPr)

Dr Watson (Joseph Derrington) and Luke Barton (Sherlock Holmes) © Alex Harvey-Brown

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NT Live’s Jack Absolute Flies Again was wonderfully farcical and funny

United KingdomUnited Kingdom National Theatre’s Jack Absolute Flies Again (by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris and based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals): Filmed (directed by Tony Grech-Smith) at the Olivier Theatre, London, and screened by National Theatre Live at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 6.10.2022. (JPr)

Laurie Davidson (Jack Absolute) and Peter Forbes (Sir Anthony Absolute) © Brinkhoff Moegenburg

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Jodie Comer triumphs in Prima Facie and is one of the outstanding stage actors of her generation

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie: Recorded (directed for the screen by Matthew Amos) at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre and broadcast by NT Live to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 21.7.2022. (JPr)

Jodie Comer as Tessa in Prima Facie © Helen Murray

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