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Gordon Parsons
BFG
Theatre review / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025

GORDON PARSONS relishes an adaptation of Dahl’s children’s tale, but issues a warning for the over 11-year-olds

pepys
Book Review / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025

GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist

forsyte
Theatre review / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025

GORDON PARSONS is impressed by superb acting in a stripped down version of John Galsworthy’s epic family drama

chomsky
Book Review / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica

macbeth
Theatre Review / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

When the spectacle of gangland violence overwhelms the text, you get the “Scottish play” far removed from RSC founding principles, muses Gordon Parsons

cyrano
Theatre review / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship

m4m
Theatre review / 28 September 2025
28 September 2025

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers

FAT HAM
Theatre Review / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead

Old Persian text
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from

2 gents
Theatre Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience

winters tale
Theatre review / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

4.48
Theatre review / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today