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 [...]
I shut myself, up in the cabin – one generator turning over coffee, flames, a computer to monitor David Attenborough and this virus ageing – it’s the only clock, except [...]
Sondheim/Lapine’s Into the Woods is a Dramatist’s wet dream. It would be difficult to find a show in which the mechanics of story-building are so clearly foregrounded and visualised. It has all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The School is the town is the school, made in Chess pieces. The school is the town is the school made in Chess-pieces: Knights, Kings, Bishops prop-up railings, columns, arches/ sleep [...]