Andrzej Łukowski
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is astoundingly bad in a real but seriously guys WTF why didn’t you just stick to the plot of the novel guys sort of way www.timeout.com/london/theat...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is terrible
A bafflingly dreadful immersive theatre adaptation of Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy
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November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is astoundingly bad in a real but seriously guys WTF why didn’t you just stick to the plot of the novel guys sort of way www.timeout.com/london/theat...
The Lyric Hammersmith panto is once again the sharpest and most inventive game in town, and top marks for turning Pretty Fly for a White Guy into a song about a Ucas inspection www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Jack and the Beanstalk, Lyric Hammersmith review: school-set remix of the classic panto plot
The Lyric’s brilliantly inventive take on a familiar panto plot relocates the action to a hyper strict Hammersmith academy
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November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Lyric Hammersmith panto is once again the sharpest and most inventive game in town, and top marks for turning Pretty Fly for a White Guy into a song about a Ucas inspection www.timeout.com/london/theat...
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Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
A decade after his landmark ‘A View from the Bridge’, director Ivo van Hove strikes gold with another Arthur Miller play
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November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
I loved Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons, probably not quite the watershed his View from the Bridge was but nonetheless magnificent and head and shoulders over the other productions I’ve seen – VH really embraces its undercurrents, it feels incredibly rich www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
A decade after his landmark ‘A View from the Bridge’, director Ivo van Hove strikes gold with another Arthur Miller play
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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I loved Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons, probably not quite the watershed his View from the Bridge was but nonetheless magnificent and head and shoulders over the other productions I’ve seen – VH really embraces its undercurrents, it feels incredibly rich www.timeout.com/london/news/...
it is three days since secret cinema sent out an email to their entire mailing list saying they would announce their new show the next day (the show has still not been officially announced despite a deadline article saying what it was)
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it is three days since secret cinema sent out an email to their entire mailing list saying they would announce their new show the next day (the show has still not been officially announced despite a deadline article saying what it was)
obviously hms for looking but some of the grok-musk sycophancy tweets are absolutely sublime
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
obviously hms for looking but some of the grok-musk sycophancy tweets are absolutely sublime
I thought End at the NT suffered from the need to replicate the structure of Beginning – too much happened in a single 90-minute chat. But I've enjoyed the fact David Eldridge’s NT trilogy is basically a really forensic dissection of middle-aged Brits www.timeout.com/london/theat...
End, National Theatre review: Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves give fine performances in the final part of David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring middle age
Alfie (Clive Owen) is dying of cancer. Julie (Saskia Reeves) is not. A couple since their twenties, their lives are about to diverge dramatically, though precis
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November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I thought End at the NT suffered from the need to replicate the structure of Beginning – too much happened in a single 90-minute chat. But I've enjoyed the fact David Eldridge’s NT trilogy is basically a really forensic dissection of middle-aged Brits www.timeout.com/london/theat...
if Mani had only ever written the bassline to Kowalski he’d be rightly hailed as a legend
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
if Mani had only ever written the bassline to Kowalski he’d be rightly hailed as a legend
no review of Van Hove’s All My Sons until tomorrow night but I can reveal there was an absolutely SUBLIME moment at the end when Bryan Cranston said the words ‘all my sons’ and there was a hushed but very audible 'mmmmm!' from multiple audience members around me
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
no review of Van Hove’s All My Sons until tomorrow night but I can reveal there was an absolutely SUBLIME moment at the end when Bryan Cranston said the words ‘all my sons’ and there was a hushed but very audible 'mmmmm!' from multiple audience members around me
herein lies my account of a weekend getting over-involved with 24-hour-long Lovecraft-inspired immersive theatre show The Key of Dreams
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I went to a 24-hour, £450 immersive theatre horror experience in Wales, and I’d go back again
‘The Key of Dreams’ is as epic as it gets, an HP Lovecraft-inspired weekend away in an isolated ‘Traitors’-style manor house
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November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
herein lies my account of a weekend getting over-involved with 24-hour-long Lovecraft-inspired immersive theatre show The Key of Dreams
www.timeout.com/uk/theatre/i...
www.timeout.com/uk/theatre/i...
do kids maypole dance anymore? I'm not sure if my primary school was unusually pagan or my kids' school is unusually, er, unpagan
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
do kids maypole dance anymore? I'm not sure if my primary school was unusually pagan or my kids' school is unusually, er, unpagan
I was saying the other day that it was weird these days to have West End Shakespeare not directed by either Robert Icke or Jamie Lloyd and I then fretted Icke had only done one this decade, so thank you Robert Icke for directing Romeo & Juliet next year www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Sadie Sink will make her London stage debut next year in Robert Icke’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’
The ‘Stranger Things’ star will play Juliet to Noah Jupe’s Romeo in auteur director Icke’s 2026 Shakespeare revival
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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I was saying the other day that it was weird these days to have West End Shakespeare not directed by either Robert Icke or Jamie Lloyd and I then fretted Icke had only done one this decade, so thank you Robert Icke for directing Romeo & Juliet next year www.timeout.com/london/news/...
just had a discussion about the genre of Doctor Who episode that is basically ‘oh wow the Doctor has coincidentally travelled back in time to the writer’s personal historical hobbyhorse’ and what cringe episode WE would write
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
just had a discussion about the genre of Doctor Who episode that is basically ‘oh wow the Doctor has coincidentally travelled back in time to the writer’s personal historical hobbyhorse’ and what cringe episode WE would write
sad the Americans don’t get June Watson (90), thrilled they instead get Anne Reid (90) – I mean that’s living a life isn’t it
BROADWAY REVIEW: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a new version of the complex Greek tragedy Oedipus (★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...
Broadway review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in Oedipus (★★★★)
Stars shine in Robert Icke's version of the complex Greek tragedy
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
sad the Americans don’t get June Watson (90), thrilled they instead get Anne Reid (90) – I mean that’s living a life isn’t it
I went to see Last Day of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition and it was enjoyably silly in a kind of 'somewhat inaccurate history for a 14-year-old metaller’ sort of way www.timeout.com/london/thing...
The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition review, ImmerseLDN: This preposterously bombastic immersive exhibition about the eruption of Vesuvius is silly but fun
Tech-enhanced exhibition detailing the Roman town of Pompeii’s final hours before it was destroyed by a volcano
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November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I went to see Last Day of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition and it was enjoyably silly in a kind of 'somewhat inaccurate history for a 14-year-old metaller’ sort of way www.timeout.com/london/thing...
Porn Play at the Royal Court has an incredibly committed performance from Ambika Mod at its centre, but I couldn’t help but feel a drama about a woman addicted to violent porn is so rare that all the clever clever stuff about Milton really clogged it up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Porn Play, Royal Court Theatre review: Ambika Mod gives a fearless performance as a woman addicted to violent porn in this gutsy new play
I’m going to be honest and say that I was worried I’d not be able to take a drama about a porn addict entirely seriously. It’s an unusual subject!And certainl
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November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Porn Play at the Royal Court has an incredibly committed performance from Ambika Mod at its centre, but I couldn’t help but feel a drama about a woman addicted to violent porn is so rare that all the clever clever stuff about Milton really clogged it up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
the guardian writing an editorial in praise of the return of Play for Today and then slagging off the actual product feels emblematic of the whole situation - people love the idea of P4T but what could it possibly actually be like in 2025? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Play for Today review – Channel 5 has turned wildly influential TV drama into banal pantomime
This revival of the classic BBC drama strand is utterly lacking in the innovative spirit of the original. The next Dennis Potter might be out there somewhere …but they certainly aren’t here
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November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
the guardian writing an editorial in praise of the return of Play for Today and then slagging off the actual product feels emblematic of the whole situation - people love the idea of P4T but what could it possibly actually be like in 2025? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
thrilled to say I'm in today’s Guardian theatre section (quoted last in a reviews round up) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Gasp-worthy, clunky, a moral problem? Critics react to The Hunger Games: On Stage
The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf
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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
thrilled to say I'm in today’s Guardian theatre section (quoted last in a reviews round up) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
I thought if The Hunger Games: On Stage had had a really great lead performance it would actually have been pretty great, as it is Mia Carragher is okay but not a generational talent etc www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage
This lavish stage adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel is staged in the purpose built Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
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November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I thought if The Hunger Games: On Stage had had a really great lead performance it would actually have been pretty great, as it is Mia Carragher is okay but not a generational talent etc www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Play for Today is back tonight apparently - here’s a thing I wrote about the complicated phenomenon of nostalgia for a show that ended 40 years ago and could never exist in its old form today!
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
We should remain open-minded about the new Play for Today, writes Andrzej Lukowski 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Play for Today is back tonight apparently - here’s a thing I wrote about the complicated phenomenon of nostalgia for a show that ended 40 years ago and could never exist in its old form today!
if you take every Bond film as canon then he’s a 100+ year old shapeshifting entity doomed to repeat an endless cycle of recruitment to MI5, meeting the latest incarnation of Blofeld, etc etc (tbh I'd be into a film that expressly addressed this)
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
if you take every Bond film as canon then he’s a 100+ year old shapeshifting entity doomed to repeat an endless cycle of recruitment to MI5, meeting the latest incarnation of Blofeld, etc etc (tbh I'd be into a film that expressly addressed this)
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Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub
this incredibly goth Charli XCX/John Cale collaboration from the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack is so good it‘s making me temporarily open-minded about the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
this incredibly goth Charli XCX/John Cale collaboration from the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack is so good it‘s making me temporarily open-minded about the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
oh no no no
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
oh no no no
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
We should remain open-minded about the new Play for Today, writes Andrzej Lukowski 👇
Andrzej Lukowski on Play for Today
Channel 5's redux of Play for Today probably won't satisfy nostalgic cravings but that doesn't mean it won't be good or that TV has no space for playwrights, says Andrzej Lukowski
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November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six