Author: Lawrence

I teach Film Studies at King's College London. I'm gonna be posting mainly about film-going in Britain in the early C20th, drawing on my own research activities. Previously I've written on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exeter Press, 2009), The Great War and Popular British Cinema in the 1920s (Palgrave, 2015) and Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small (Wallflower, 2017)

Pantomime Review: ‘Dick Whittington’ at the Thameside Theatre, Grays

  I’m not going to lie to you. I didn’t have great expectations for this pantomime. I mean, where is Grays anyway? A mate on social media cruelly suggested that it only exists so that people from Gravesend can feel superior to somewhere. Turns out its part of Thurrock, which is a key marginal in … Continue reading Pantomime Review: ‘Dick Whittington’ at the Thameside Theatre, Grays →