médiathèque

• 30 rock (creator: tina fey, 2006-2009)
• simon amstell (mar 2009, the pleasance islington)
• mad men (creator: matthew weiner, usa, 2007-2008)
• la cage aux folles (feb 2009, the playhouse) feat. graham norton
• this is war! (jan 2009, barbican) the work of robert capa and gerda taro (one of his many paramours) is featured, along with more contemporary depictions of war from the war in Iraq.
• burroughs live (jan 2009, gsk contemporary, royal academy of arts)
• tim michin (dec 2008, queen elizabeth hall, southbank)
• august: osage county (writer: tracy letts; steppenwolf company; national theatre, london; 2008 ) with most people’s schedules featuring upcoming family gatherings and their usual personality clashes, eccentricities, arguments, here is potent reminder that no family is quite as dysfunctional as tracey letts’ westons.  Painful, hilarious and utterly compelling.
• arrested development (creator: mitchell hurwitz; feat. jason bateman, tony hale; usa, 2003-2006)
• ed byrne (oct 2008, riverside studios, hammersmith)
• flight of the conchords (creator: jemaine clement, bret mckenzie, nz, 2007)
• the west wing (creator. aaron sorkin; feat. bradley whitford, alison janney, martin sheen, rob lowe; usa, 1999-2006)
• press gang (steven moffat, uk, 1989-1993)
• waiting for godot (samuel beckett; dir. peter hall, the new ambassadors, london) a play where, as one irish critic said, ‘nothing happens, twice’. the first act with its reams of spittle and gasping, tortured lucky was quite grotesque but the lyricism of the words still compels. absurd, existentialist and moving.
• black books (feat. dylan moran, bill bailey, tamsin greig, uk, 2000-2004) drunken grumpy ramblings, rants and wackiness from dysfunctional characters, set in a dishevelled bloomsbury bookshop.