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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 1d

Film 4 - Saipan

#LFF #Saipan #football #RoyKeane #MickMcCarthy #ÉannaHardwicke #SteveCoogan

“Discovering The Classics” – The Kink Kontroversy

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 2d

That's it - the Sunny tour has begun. Thank you, @palaceandopera.bsky.social 💛

#SunnyAfternoon #TheKinks

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 3d

BLOG POST: "Discovering The Classics" - The Kink Kontroversy

To mark the first performance of the new #SunnyAfternoon tour, I've dug out another album celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

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The VitalsRelease date: 26 November 1965UK chart peak: #9Running time: 30:12Singles: Till the End of the Day (#8) Their second UK release of the year (following on from March’s Kinda Kinks), …

London Film Festival 2025

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

BLOG POST UPDATE: London Film Festival 2025 - Indomptables mini-review

#LFF #Untamable #Indomptables #ThomasNgijol #Cameroon #review pleasemindtheblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/l...

As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

REVIEW: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, BFI London Film Festival

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Love London Love Culture @lovelondonlc.bsky.social · 6d

Our first review from this years #BFIlondonfilm festival is now live! Find out what we made of Wake Up Dead Man here: lovelondonloveculture.com/2025/10/08/r...

Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc to solve his most perplexing case to date – with some extremely clever twists… Rian Johnson has done it once again: created an intriguing murder-my…

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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

Film 3 - Untamable (Indomptables)

#LFF #Indomptables #Untamable #ThomasNgijol

London Film Festival 2025

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

BLOG POST: London Film Festival 2025 - mini-review collection

Starting with Knives Out & Tuner...

#LFF #KnivesOut #WakeUpDeadMan #RianJohnson #DanielCraig #Tuner #DanielRoher #DustinHoffman #LeoWoodall #review pleasemindtheblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/l...

As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

Film 2 (Surprise Film) - Tuner

#LFF #Tuner #DustinHoffman #LeoWoodall #DanielRoher

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

Film 1 - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

#LFF #KnivesOut #WakeUpDeadMan #BenoitBlanc #RianJohnson #DanielCraig #JoshOConnor

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 4d

Happy first LFF 2025 screening to me!

#LFF

#MindTheBard 2025: round-up

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 10d

BLOG POST: Mind The Bard 2025 round-up

In the year of Hamlets...

#MindTheBard #LDNTheatreBloggers #TheatreBloggers
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At least I’m used to #MindTheBard weeks (and challenge weeks in general) being derailed by now… Yes, the previously mentioned tiring month at work had me completely run down almost befo…

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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 10d

Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Shakespeare's Globe

One of the least performed plays in Shakespeare’s canon, and also one of the most aptly labelled as a ‘problem play’; Troilus and Cressida is ostensibly about the romance between these two Trojans, bu...

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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 11d

It wouldn't be a Shakespeare week without a trip to The Globe, would it? Press night for Troilus and Cressida!

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#MindTheBard 2025: “The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!” – Troilus and Cressida preview

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 11d

PREVIEW: Troilus and Cressida at The Globe

A rarely-performed play that was probably due a return.

#MindTheBard #TroilusAndCressida #Shakespeare

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Although named after two Trojan lovers, Troilus and Cressida mostly focuses on the events that take place towards the end of Homer’s Iliad. After Menelaus’ queen Helen left Sparta wit…

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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 11d

Review: HAMLET, National Theatre

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Given the National Theatre’s history with one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, a new production of Hamlet is a natural fit in Indhu Rubasingha...

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Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 12d

To be at a Hamlet, or not be at a Hamlet?

I chose the former.

#MindTheBard #Hamlet

English Kings Killing Foreigners

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 13d

It's a bloodfest for the next round of #MindTheBard! I'm back at Hampstead Theatre and really intrigued to see what Max Webster has done with Titus Andronicus.

#HTTitusAndronicus

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 14d

This was one of my favourite shows of last year (wp.me/p5iPbU-b9V), and I'm so glad I got the chance to see it again.

Here's a reminder of my review from @camdenpt.bsky.social...

#MindTheBard #EnglishKingsKillingForeigners

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O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention… Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti are experienced members of the Globe Ensemble, having performed in various Shakespea…

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 14d

For today's edition of #MindTheBard, we explore the enduring relevance of Shakespeare's works and what goes into the creation of a new production. Plus nationality, nationalism, identity, genocide... They pack a lot in!

#EnglishKingsKillingForeigners

Born With Teeth Photo credit: Johan Persson “Oh Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!” How many early modern playwrights does it take to tell the story of Henry VI? Liz Duffy Adams’ two-hand…

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a reminder of my thoughts from press night...

#MindTheBard #BornWithTeeth
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Born With Teeth

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 15d

It could only be a return to Born With Teeth!

#MindTheBard #BornWithTeeth #Shakespeare #Marlowe

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 15d

Current reading material - any clues as to which show I saw tonight..?

#MindTheBard

Somehow, despite it being probably the most performed Shakespeare play of them all, Justin Audibert’s production of Hamlet is the very first to be staged on the Chichester Festival Theatre si…

Mind The Blog @mindtheblog.bsky.social · 15d

REVIEW: Hamlet at the Minerva Theatre

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"The fencing scene is a definite highlight"

#Hamlet #MindTheBard #Shakespeare #LDNTheatreBloggers #TheatreBloggers
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Hamlet (Chichester 2025)