8 MAY 2004, page 58

Mad About The Boy

Lloyd Evans Hamlet Old Vie H amlet: boy or man? Boy, insists Trevor Nunn, casting a stripling in his new production at the Old Vic. I won't dispute Nunn's thesis. The play does......

Eclectic Is The Word

Mark Amory Van Helsing PG-13, selected cinemas A lynch mob curls its way up the winding path to an impossibly turreted castle, each misshapen peasant carrying a torch aloft and......

Beware Of London

Simon Hoggart T don't suppose that Peter Ackroyd's 1 London — Fire & Destiny (BBC2) was meant to be quite as funny ha-ha or as funny peculiar as it turned out to be. Mr Ackroyd,......