Guilty pleasures TV – The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Guilty pleasures TV – The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives This blog is for pure unadulterated pleasure – it bears no relationship to my theatre writing-making, the life of the poetry scene or [...]
Things like that don’t happen to people like me ~ challenging the snake
‘Things like that don’t happen to people like me’ is a thought that wrong-foots so many of us throughout life’s journey that it might easily be coined as a syndrome and added to a diagnostic [...]
Total Theatre saves the day! Immersive is making bank and fulfilling old ambition
Total Theatre saves the day! Immersive is making bank and fulfilling old ambition By Tamsin Flower What do divisive composer Richard Wagner, The Tower of London and dancers dressed [...]
The Byline Times: New Government Report Reveals Critical Gaps in Poverty Data and Questionable Metrics
To read my piece on the poverty of poverty data in the UK, click here.
What the British can learn from French work-culture – four-day-weeks, strikes & tea-breaks
While culture-buzzy C-Suiters and business journalists celebrate findings of studies on the four-day-week, a conversation with a UK based recruiter, may likely yield more dismal results. A [...]
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s education – Crawford, Marten, Crawley and human nature
Senior members of our modern Royal Family have been robustly characterised as outdoorsy types with a bent for anti-intellectualism, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second was no [...]
Back to ‘Live’ in London – from oratory in a dark theatre to dance with the outdoors and each other…A review of: Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre, En Route by PROTEIN and From Greenwich with Love by Rendez-Vous Dance.
Under Milk Wood… July 2021.’ It is the tail-end of the lockdown everyone assumes is our last and theatres that can afford it have opened. Seeing Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre [...]
Once you use the word ‘class’ after anything, you’re inviting the whole collective cultural-imagination to have a picnic in your head.
It happens every time – angst about being disingenuous one way or another, followed by second-guessing the reaction of an anonymous person behind the screen. Every time I encounter the [...]
Why Donald Trump is the King of ‘Hubris’ for modern times…
Tamsin Flower, 18 Jan 2021. For most of us, ‘Hubris’ is a dusty concept kept in a drawer marked ‘Useless Stuff from School.’ Far from being irrelevant to modern times, hubris lives in our [...]