I Am A Camera Review

I Am Camera

I Am a Camera makes for a fine theatrical adaptation. Inspired by Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 semi-autobiographical novel, Goodbye to Berlin,  in which Isherwood novelised his experience of a time spent in Berlin in the early 1930s, John Van Druten recreated it for Broadway, a feat that went on to inspire both the musical and the film, Cabaret. Druten’s play faintly follows the [...] Read more »

Anastasia Review

Anastasia

1926. Three white Russians gather in a Berlin garret and plot to con their fellow emigres into believing that the girl that they have plucked from canal number 4 is Nikolai Romanov’s youngest daughter in order to share his millions supposedly deposited in an English bank. So far, so Anna Anderson. The cleverness in this writing [...] Read more »