Tom Birchenough

Articles By Tom Birchenough

Boudica, Shakespeare's Globe review - ancient history made compellingly contemporary Thursday, 14 September 2017 Read more...	Insyriated review - claustrophobic terror in a Damascus war zone Friday, 08 September 2017 Read more...
God's Own Country review - a raw, rural masterpiece Friday, 01 September 2017 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: My Beautiful Laundrette Thursday, 31 August 2017 Read more...
Late Company, Trafalgar Studios review - visceral production of Jordan Tannahill's lean, pained drama Tuesday, 29 August 2017 Read more...	Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling, BBC One review - JK Rowling's debut in crime bows most promisingly Monday, 28 August 2017 Read more...
Hotel Salvation review - a moving meditation on the end Friday, 25 August 2017 Read more...	Tom of Finland review - engaging biopic of gay pioneer Friday, 11 August 2017 Read more...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Tree of Wooden Clogs Tuesday, 08 August 2017 Read more...	DVD: Cézanne et moi Friday, 14 July 2017 Read more...
DVD/Blu-ray: Long Shot Friday, 30 June 2017 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: My 20th Century Tuesday, 06 June 2017 Read more...
Peter Ackroyd: Queer City - London's gay life over two millennia Sunday, 04 June 2017 Read more...	After the Storm review - quietly nuanced and moving Japanese family drama impresses Friday, 02 June 2017 Read more...
An Octoroon review - slavery reprised as melodrama in a vibrantly theatrical show Saturday, 27 May 2017 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: Lino Brocka - Two Films Friday, 26 May 2017 Read more...

It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever...

Janáček described his nature-versus-humanity fable The Cunning Little Vixen as “a merry thing with a sad...

Perspectives on Shakespeare's tragedy have changed over the decades....

After cancelling his Birmingham gig an hour before curtain-up due to illness, the anticipatory hype around whether...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of...

“Climb upon a bridge to far, go anywhere your heart desires.” The key phrase from the title track of Midlake’s sixth studio album conveys the...

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s so very different about Belfast and Glasgow, both of which I have visited in the last few...

During a false start to “Billy Don’t Fall”, on Sunday night at Birmingham’s iconic Town Hall, Sananda Maitreya took the opportunity to address the...

There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death, Joseph De...