Liz Hoggard

Lovely piece to celebrate the writing of the late Jane Gardam. Old Filth put her on the map but as a teenager I devoured Bilgewater - the perfect YA novel in retrospect - and The Long Way From Verona https://t.co/h2NNyzMaor

Fascinating, daring update of the Ibsen classic - made me think a lot about Polly Stenham's That Face @LyricHammer https://t.co/gTvkjQAzJz

Thank you to ⁦Romola Garai⁩ ⁩for introducing me to Sleater-Kinney’s Say It Like You Mean It (video starring the incandescent J Smith-Cameron). A moving last edition of the Observer under the Guardian’s wing for many reasons https://t.co/NEVI5KfLS6

So many in the audience sobbing by the end. David Shields and Julie Hesmondhalgh are incredibly moving - but so is the true story that inspired the play. Sometimes only theatre has this power ⁦@youngvictheatre⁩ https://t.co/Zk1gWnRVAn

T32 my old friend - yes this is how I afford a London theatre habit! #costofliving #pillar #restrictedview https://t.co/rM3yNLSOc3

The inimitable @HelenLederer tells me about finally getting fit at 70 to take part in the new series of @BBCTwo's #Pilgrimage what it's like to be "mixed heritage" and the real-life dramas behind the series https://t.co/c0R3nkodLt

Such a fascinating and humbling take on mature love in your 70s and 80s. A film made by a couple about a couple. Now i'm kicking myself that I missed the Tate's retrospective of Joel Meyerowitz's photography https://t.co/YGMuOl6YMl

It's responsible for all modern diseases from cancer to dementia, but it became a bit more personal when I discovered I had a genetic propensity for excessive inflammation. The experts tell me what I can do to reduce my risk https://t.co/b9xZzJwd87

Witty, absurdist update of Ionesco with lashings of audience participation (only sit in the front row if you can play the kazoo) but still reeling from Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù's heartbreaking end performance. And was that Armando Iannucci we saw at the interval? https://t.co/2I6lBS09MP

From Festival to The Young Visiters, I've always loved Lyndsey Marshal and in Restless she has the role of a lifetime, as a stressed single mother dealing with a nightmare neighbour. A female western, indeed https://t.co/DqCQtK39bC

The brutality of restaurant work (and illegal immigration) is never in doubt. The food barely counts! But La Cocina based on Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play The Kitchen, (filmed partly in Spanish by Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios) is dreamy and stunning https://t.co/SJqw1psgJM

Heaven for cats. But the message of species and nationalities working together to stay alive has never been more poignant https://t.co/5WMyLVKN8k

I don’t even like vampire stories (if this is what it is) but Sister Midnight, the Bafta-nominated dark comedy by British-Indian director Karan Kandhari, is hilarious and empowering (heartened to see so many kickass 17-year-old girls in the audience) https://t.co/bEc9BHWcqo

Pets before husbands! Has a lovely 1970s ring - but amen to that! We prefer our pets to partners https://t.co/DyEbFDnR4m

It’s been dubbed The Horniman on Sea. Great day @PowellCotton Birchington, Kent which presents natural history collections in trippy historical dioramas, world material cultures from Africa & Asia, and local archeology from Thanet coastline. Always nice to uncover new museum gem https://t.co/yCE52ItA4U

And then we went to a rather happening cocktail bar, Ricco & Loren (I think I last had a drink out in Lichfield age 21!). And Helen looked like a German film star in a bar (soundtrack by The Passions). And Chris was handsome and tolerant, as ever @lichfieldfest https://t.co/0nI3GO1qgN

My two worlds (usually kept so far apart) collide! Lady Lederer at the Lichfield book festival in my home town @lichfieldfest @HelenLederer https://t.co/sodzGgGxTh