Nick Curtis

3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Nick Curtis

Culture | TheatreConor McPherson is a singular writer and a phenomenal directorManuel HarlanNick Curtis @nickcurtis1 minute agoAudacious. That’s the word for Conor McPherson’s new play, a hilarious and achingly moving slice of dysfunctional rural Irish family life in the 1980s with broad seams of mysticism and superstition running through it. McPherson himself skillfully directs a splendid ensemble from which two names have to be singled out.

3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Nick Curtis

Culture | TheatreThe award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heartJamie Muscato & Frances Mayli McCann in The Great Gatsby Johan PerssonNick Curtis @nickcurtis2 minutes agoThe months-long cheesy poster campaign for this Broadway musical adapted from Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of wealthy amorality in the Roaring 20s had me fearing the worst.

3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Nick Curtis

Culture | TheatreNeil LaBute made a name for himself with brisk, electrifying plays. Where’s that spark now? Photo by Mark DouetNick Curtis @nickcurtis1 minute agoSuicide may be painless, as the song has it, but assisted dying is painfully awkward in Neil LaBute’s play. It’s a wry but serious look at a hot-button topic, inspired by the recent death of his own mother (and possibly by the fact that this former enfant terrible of American theatre is himself now 62). It’s also repetitive and reductive.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Nick Curtis

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3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Nick Curtis

FilmThey’ve been friends for 30 years — now Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes are reprising their on-screen romance in a retelling of the greatest epic of them all: the OdysseyNick Curtis @nickcurtis1 minute agoI’m in the Union Club in Soho with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche discussing The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s film about Odysseus’s troubled reunion with his wife Penelope after 20 years’ absence.