100 people's 9th favourite theatre critic and software developer. Opinions my own, not any employer’s, and probably rubbish. Creator of @CritiCalTheatre. He/him
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‘This version has grown up, matured & deserves to be welcomed’
★★★ for Martin Guerre at @oldvictheatre @scottm
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I hope its listener likes pre-2021 Mumford and Sons
GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-…
Ooh that’s really not a great recasting. Cool way to introduce the new voice though, as a minor but integral part of a much larger story #TheArchers
Among everything I did this weekend, I finally got a working prototype for the theatre sim game I’ve wanted to build for the last 15 years… unfortunately handing Claude the task of designing screens has made it look like every other fucking Anthropic-fuelled slop
Watching WAR on Sky Atlantic and how refreshing to see Canary Wharf playing Canary Wharf on screen, instead of some US city or a dystopian sci-fi nightmare location
Scott Matthewman retweeted
‘While this musical parody may be unauthorised, its tenacity, rudeness & smart adaptation of Tierney’s TV series make it a great ambassador for the show’
★★★★ for Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody at @ubsoho @scottm
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Listening to the @empiremagazine podcast celebrating Little Shop of Horrors (with the 4K Director’s Cut out on Blu-Ray next week). Such a great musical movie, plus of course awesome choreo from @patgarrett777 which the podcast inexplicably forgets to applaud
I love that Claude Code’s been able to dust off an old idea for a business game I had and not only exercise all the pain points I encountered years ago, but build a simulation in python to stress test the economic model and work out how to make it fun to play. Progress!
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#THEATRE #REVIEW Some Woman @NationalTheatre
'the dialogue is slow, drawn out, and so full of portentous pauses that even Harold Pinter might have urged them to get on with things' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ thereviewshub.com/some-woman… #London
In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe the WWII references are a device by which the Pevensie children are staying in a strange house belonging to a relative. Perhaps the least important part of the whole narrative.
There are serious logistical flaws.
For example, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe occurs during WWII in the 1940s. Peter, Susan, Ed, and Lucy Pevensie flee London for the country because London is being bombed by Nazis.
This is a huge plot point and shapes how the characters interact for the rest of the story.
It is impossible for Digory to have lived in the 1950s, because he built the wardrobe which Lucy climbed into. It’s made out of Narnian wood, which is why it becomes a portal between two worlds. Digory grows up to be the eccentric professor who the Pevensie children take shelter with during WWII.
The era change completely upends the entire series. I don’t understand how anyone familiar with the source material could make this kind of mistake.
In this week’s #GBBO Paul Hollywood complained that every single baker failed the technical. And yet no self-reflection that his recipe was too vague! If every single baker struggled you need to consider what the common element was, and that’s the instructions they were given
Finished The Split Up (what I hope is series 1 of several) and aching for more. In particular Dimitri Leonidas, who is sex on pages but who has a neck in sore need of a costume designer who can make it look good in collar tie…
Not wishing to dunk on one person, for there have been many such comments like this. It assumes that giving the Faithful clues will make for a better game – when multiple series show that, in the absence of real evidence, the Faithful concoct their own, which is much better TV
Still feeling raw about the loss to British theatre of such a firebrand and advocate for new musical writing. A great tribute to a unique man.
We are very sorry to hear of the death of director, dramaturg & champion of new musical theatre Adam Lenson, who had been living with cancer
Producer Neil Marcus, who collaborated with Lenson on Cable Street amongst other projects, pays tribute below
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Well @BarbaraNice ought to be in the cast for Series 3, she’d be a hoot
Seeing so many vibe coders talking about never letting their agents write unit tests. I think it’s because they get to sprint the first 100 meters from a standing start and assume they can maintain that pace…
Catching up on #CelebrityTraitors and loving how Sebastian Croft’s fashion choices are always “what would a Home Counties Cougar Grandma wear”
