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James Delingpole

You’re never too old, they say. But I am

At Shakespeare in Love, I discovered more things I’ll never ever be able to do

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

For my 49th birthday treat, I went to see Shakespeare in Love at the Noël Coward theatre in London. Expensive but worth it: spry, funny, uplifting and moving but also, for all the surface froth, quite a deep meditation on the creative process and the enduring power of art.

What everyone secretly loves best about it, though, I suspect, is the way it so shamelessly flatters their intelligence.

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