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Veronica Lee

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Veronica is an award-winning writer and critic who contributes on theatre and comedy to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and London Evening Standard.

Articles By Veronica Lee

Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain, Northampton Saints review - history made funny

Monday, 20 July 2020 Read more...

Car Park Comedy, Henley review - Comedy Store's mixed bill

Monday, 13 July 2020 Read more...

@TheDriveIn, Blackheath review - comedy and car-aoke

Friday, 10 July 2020 Read more...

Dom Joly / Daniel Sloss, Brent Cross reviews - UK's first drive-in comedy shows

Saturday, 04 July 2020 Read more...

The Other One, BBC One review - entertaining odd-couple sitcom

Saturday, 06 June 2020 Read more...

Days of the Bagnold Summer review - wry suburban drama

Saturday, 06 June 2020 Read more...

Space Force, Netflix review - fails to launch

Friday, 29 May 2020 Read more...

Desiree Burch, Soho Theatre On Demand review - fantastical storytelling

Monday, 25 May 2020 Read more...

The Understudy online review - entertaining adaptation of David Nicholls' novel

Friday, 22 May 2020 Read more...

Lockdown Comedy 2: where to get your laughs this week

Monday, 18 May 2020 Read more...

In Search of Greatness review - Gabe Polsky's absorbing sports documentary

Friday, 15 May 2020 Read more...

Jerry Seinfeld, Netflix review - not bad for a swansong

Tuesday, 12 May 2020 Read more...

Isolation Song Contest review - a fun alternative to Eurovision

Sunday, 03 May 2020 Read more...

After Life series 2, Netflix review - Ricky Gervais's study of bereavement continues

Saturday, 25 April 2020 Read more...

Aditi Mittal, Soho Theatre On Demand review - cows, mothers and fempowerment

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 Read more...

The Host review - implausible suspense thriller

Thursday, 16 April 2020 Read more...

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The opening images of Tornado are striking. A wild-haired young woman in Japanese peasant garb runs for her life through a barren forest...

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Lollipop review - a family torn apart

On leaving prison, Lollipop’s thirtyish single mum Molly discovers that reclaiming her kids from social care is akin to doing lengths in...

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I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown away by the...

Album: The Young Gods - Appear Disappear

Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life review - persuading us that the...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the...

The King of Pangea, King's Head Theatre review - grief...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new...

Album: Sam Binga - Sam Binga Presents Club Orthodontics

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which...