Fiona Mountford
Journalist and Host of Talks and Events. at Freelance
Previously 17 years as Evening Standard theatre critic. Now at the i. All-round arts lover. Has opinions. Host of talks and events. Finally writing the book.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Fiona Mountford
It is the question that never gives up, that can never be conclusively answered one way or another: are some people born evil, or do dreadful actions come about as a result of damaging circumstances?
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Fiona Mountford
A “back-of-the-net winner” is how I happily described James Graham’s ebullient study of Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team when it premiered in summer 2023. A West End run followed its first triumphant season at the National and a return fixture at its South Bank home was swiftly announced, not to mention a forthcoming four-part BBC drama. Yet much has happened in the intervening 21 months: England lost to Spain in the final of Euro 2024, prompting Southgate’s resignation.
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Fiona Mountford
We’ve had successful musical versions of Legally Blonde and Mean Girls, so it was an inevitability that the ravening maws of the great film-to-stage sausage machine would alight upon these movies’ esteemed predecessor in the girl-power, high-school, shopping-fest genre. Clueless the movie celebrates – gulp – its 30th birthday this year, but its protagonists are forever young and wrinkle-free, the posturing teenage alpha males and females of Beverly High, Los Angeles.
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Fiona Mountford
A single punch, thrown in a haze of drink and drugs in Nottingham city centre one Saturday night, had devastating consequences upon a number of lives. Yet miraculously, from the depths of a tragedy in which a man lost his life, a tiny bloom of hope began to unfurl. Such is the bare-bones outline of Jacob Dunne’s book Right from Wrong, which indefatigable voice-of-the-nation playwright James Graham has adapted into a whirlingly kinetic piece of theatre.
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Fiona Mountford
Last spring, Thomas Ostermeier, the directorial darling of avant-garde European theatre, made his West End debut with a laborious modern spin on Ibsen’s Enemy of the People, starring Matt Smith as a type of grouchy perennial student. Now Ostermeier is back, to take on Chekhov rather than Ibsen, and with an even bigger name as his star attraction: Cate Blanchett, who absolutely blazes through the role of hollow and self-obsessed actress Irina Arkadina.
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