Georgina Brown

Oct 30, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Georgina Brown

You can take Emily out of America, but you can’t take America out of Emily. Which is precisely the point of Emily In Paris, the hit Netflix comedy drama, so ridiculously moreish that its fifth season has just been announced. All thanks to Lily Collins’s Emily, the unsquashably chirpy charmer who waltzes around Paris in outfits to die for, failing to learn French and so forcing everyone to speak English. Very quickly, she has tout le monde doing everything her way. And here’s Emily in London.

Oct 13, 2024 | thehindubusinessline.com | Chitra Narayanan |Georgina Brown

First, a confession. I picked up this book simply because it was the life story of Sachin Tendulkar’s mother-in-law. But just two pages down into Annabel Mehta’s memoirs and I was hooked. It’s a warm, intimate account of an English woman straddling two cultures as she marries into a Gujarati Mehta family and moves to India.

Oct 3, 2024 | rediff.com | Annabel Mehta |Georgina Brown

Anjali quickly decided not to pursue her career in medicine. If she had worked in a government hospital, she would have had to do her fair share of nights and weekends in hospital, which would have been tough when Sachin was back in Bombay between tours. Had she worked in private practice as Dr Anjali Tendulkar, she reckoned she would be consulted for her name rather than her expertise. Anjali is an all-or nothing person and she couldn't have just dabbled in doctoring.

Aug 29, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Georgina Brown

History has a tendency to repeat itself. Though less so on the stage, where each revival of an old play proves what a difference a director and actors make. It's 20 years since Alan Bennett's The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre and Nicholas Hytner's high-spirited, hilarious staging made stars of a new generation of youngsters: James Corden, Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey, Samuel Barnett and Jamie Parker, playing a bunch of bright sixth-formers.

Jul 25, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Georgina Brown

What a difference that exclamation mark made. Lionel Bart reinvented Dickens’s great novel Oliver Twist, about grinding poverty, child exploitation and murder, as a fairy tale, filled with chirpy Cockney capers and lovable, hummable tunes. As a 13-year-old schoolboy, Cameron Mackintosh became spellbound by the 1960 original production and, ever since, Oliver! has spun a thread through his theatrical life.