Benedict Nightingale

...to death and then killed himself in the 1960s. The actor received mixed reviews with The Daily Telegraph applauding the performance while The Times critic Benedict Nightingale decided that "Lucas overacts or at least tries too hard. "...

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...but then it changes and claims that the cast behaves in ways that British people do not normally behave (the French half). Benedict Nightingale in The Times gave the play four out of five stars, although he did have criticisms, saying,...

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...are complimented by LED screens creating some wonderful theatrical set pieces that are simple and yet remarkably effective". Benedict Nightingale of The Times said of one performer, "What h lacks in physical similarity to Jackson he also...

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...people have been turned into lurching grotesques and the result does a grave disservice both to the writer and comic acting." Benedict Nightingale in ''The Times'' wrote: "Last night I was sickened by some of the coarsest performances I...

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...now be represented in the West End by this garish throwback in which camp is determinedly overpitched," Billington wrote. Benedict Nightingale of The Times was more generous: "There's energy, fun, tunefulness and, above all, the most...

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...Judi, Mr Callan continues, gives a "somewhat weary performance" that suggests her "heart is not really in it". In The Times, Benedict Nightingale salutes the "hard work" of Dame Judi in what he describes as "an unrewarding part".

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...sound disconcertingly younger than Bennett? There was more than a touch of the Widow Twankeys in his delivery. In The Times, Benedict Nightingale had kind, if not ecstatic, words for Lenny Henry's Shakespearean debut as Othello last week.

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...for consideration. Branagh, who won the Critics' Circle award last month for Best Male Performance, simply failed to make the cut. Benedict Nightingale wrote in The Times after Ivanov's opening night in September last year that the actor...

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...of my first play, and I was in awe of him, but he sought me out to congratulate me; not many people would have done that. " Benedict Nightingale, chief theatre critic of The Times, said that Pinter "wasn't a man of brooding silences or...

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...of your life, but a decent night out for couples courting or otherwise? You bet," Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Daily Telegraph. Benedict Nightingale, writing in The Times, said the show was "brilliantly staged, but raises an obvious...

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