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)
  • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

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. Complicité’s Can I Live? – Live from the Barbican (2021) (October)

Film

  1. Promising Young Woman (September)
  • 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)

Visits & Experiences

Arts & Lit Goals for 2021

  • 5 classics
    • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

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