A round up of my monthly cultural picks for 2019
January
The Cane – play by Mark Ravenhill (Royal Court Theatre) *****
February
The Only Story – novel by Julian Barnes *****
March
The Show In Which Hopefully Nothing Happens – play by Jetse Batelaan (Unicorn Theatre) *****
April
Happy Days – play by Samuel Beckett (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) *****
May
Rocket Man – film directed by Dexter Fletcher. ****
June
Musee d’Orsay (Paris) *****
July
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – The Musical by Jake Brunger & Pippa Cleary (Ambassadors Theatre) ****
August
The Lehman Trilogy – play by Stefano Massini – adapted by Ben Power (NT at the Piccadilly) *****
September
Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present – play by Alan Ayckbourn (SJT, Scarborough) ****
October
Breaking The Code – play by Hugh Whitemore (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) ****
November
The Beauty Queen of Leenane – play by Martin McDonagh (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington) ****
December
Midnight’s Children – novel by Salman Rushdie *****
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