Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Here are my top five films. Astonishingly (and never before) three are British! Followed by top five novels and plays seen or read during 2008.
In no particular order:
The five best novels I have read:
Restless by William Boyd
Silent River by Kate Grenville
Song Before it is Sung Justin Cartwright
Deaf Sentence David Lodge
What Was Lost Catherine O’Flynn
Top Five Plays
Ivanov Chekhov at Donmar (Wyndhams) London
Frost Nixonby Peter Morgan, Melbourne Theatre Group, Playhouse Melbourne
The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn at the Old Vic, London
Waste Harley Granville Barker, Almeida London
Creditors August Strindberg Donmar London