2021

Texts

  1. Yen – Anna Jordan (Playgroup) (January)
  2. Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (January)
  3. The Death of Francis Bacon – Max Porter (January)
  4. Don’t Call Us Dead – Danez Smith (January)
  5. Marilyn and Me – Ji-Min Lee (February)
  6. Men to Avoid in Art and Life – Nicole Tersigni (February)
  7. Luster – Raven Leilani (February)
  8. Strange Flowers – Donal Ryan (February)
  9. Dressing for the Afterlife – Maria Taylor (February)
  10. The Part-Time Job – P. D. James (March)
  11. Gender Swapped Fairy Tales – Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett (April)
  12. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (May)
  13. Sisters – Daisy Johnson (May)
  14. Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere – Sarah Perry (May)
  15. Small in the City – Sydney Smith (June)
  16. After the Silence – Louise O’Neill (June)
  17. The Lost Art of Sinking – Naomi Booth (June)
  18. Burnt Sugar – Avni Doshi (June)
  19. Heatwave – Victor Jestin (September)
  20. Mrs Death Misses Death – Salena Godden (November)
  21. Normal People: The Scripts – Sally Rooney (November)
  22. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid (December)
  23. Beautiful World, Where Are You? – Sally Rooney (December)
  24. Boy Parts – Eliza Clark (December)
  25. Black is the Colour – Julia Gfrörer (December)
  26. Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh

Theatre

  1. Peter Pan – Live from the Barn Theatre (2020) (January)
  2. English National Ballet’s Nutcracker Delights – Live from the London Coliseum (December 2020) (January)
  3. Lungs – Live from The Old Vic (2020) (January)
  4. The Fabulist Fox Sister – Live from Southwark Playhouse (December 2020) (January)
  5. Porgy and Bess – Live from the Met Opera (February 2020) (February)
  6. Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker – Live from the Birmingham Rep (December 2020) (February)
  7. The Colour Purple – Live from the Curve Theatre (2021) (February)
  8. Royal Ballet’s Raymonda Act III – Live from the Royal Opera House (2019) (March)
  9. Shook – via Papatango (2020) (March)
  10. The Wardrobe Ensemble’s The Great Gatsby – Live from the Wardrobe Theatre (2021) (March)
  11. Jesus Christ Superstar – via The Shows Must Go On (2012) (April)
  12. Royal Ballet’s Elite Syncopations – Live from the Royal Opera House (2020) (April)
  13. The Picture of Dorian Gray – via the Barn Theatre (2021) (April)
  14. Royal Ballet’s Concerto – Live from the Royal Opera House (2019) (April)
  15. Northern Ballet’s Dracula – Live from Leeds Playhouse (2019) (May)
  16. Meet Me At Dawn – Live from the Hope Mill Theatre (May)
  17. The Place at the Bridge – Live from Tobacco Factory Theatres (May)
  18. Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes – Live from Sadler’s Wells (2020) (June)
  19. Destiny – Tobacco Factory Theatres (June)
  20. CSSD’s Spring Awakening (June 2021) (July)
  21. Royal Ballet’s Balanchine and Robbins – Live from the Royal Opera House (June 2021) (July)
  22. British Ballet Gala – Live from the Royal Albert Hall (June 2021) (July)
  23. Andromeda – Live from Camden People’s Theatre (July)
  24. Outlier – Live from Bristol Old Vic (July 2021) (August)
  25. Wise Children’s Bagdad Cafe – Live from the Old Vic (August)
  26. South Pacific – Live from Chichester Festival Theatre (August)
  27. Walrus’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons – Live from Shedinburgh Fringe Festival 2021 (August)
  28. FullRogue’s Wild Swimming – Theatre on the Downs (August)
  29. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast – Bristol Hippodrome (September)
  30. Islander – Live from Dundee Rep (2021) (September)
  31. Northern Ballet’s Dangerous Liaisons – Live from Leeds Playhouse (October 2020) (September)
  32. The Tragedy of Macbeth – Live from the Almeida Theatre (October)
  33. Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights – Bristol Old Vic (October)
  34. Terrifying Women – Live from the Golden Goose Theatre (October 2021) (November)
  35. Heathers the Musical UK Tour – Bristol Hippodrome (November)
  36. Oliver Twist – Live from Leeds Playhouse (2021) (November)
  37. Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker – Live from the Royal Opera House (2018) via Netflix (November)
  38. Irish National Opera’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground – Live from the National Opera House Wexford (2020) via ROH Stream (November)
  39. Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck (2021) via Marquee TV (December)
  40. Constellations – Live from the Donmar Warehouse (2021 – O’Dowd/Maxwell Martin cast in full) (December)
  41. Kiss Me, Kate – Live from the Royal Albert Hall (2014) via BBC Proms (December)
  42. Insane Root’s Hansel & Gretel – Arnos Vale Woodlands (December)
  43. Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical – Live from the Noël Coward Theatre (2017) via Sky Arts (December)
  • Anything Goes – Live from the Barbican (2021)
  • Gypsy – Live from the Savoy Theatre (2015) via Netflix
  • Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary – Live from the Prince Edward Theatre (2016) via Netflix

Film

  1. Promising Young Woman (September)
  2. Spencer (November)
  • Shirley
  • In The Heights
  • The French Dispatch
  • Last Night in Soho
  • The Green Knight
  • Tick, Tick… Boom!
  • Passing

Series

  1. Downton Abbey (1-6)
  2. The Crown (1-3)

Visits & Experiences

Arts & Lit Goals for 2021

Previous year

Following year