Dear Elysia, One day the Old World got sick. Spasms, coughs jerked into space from each continent – ugly, inconceivable rockets. Every land-mass had something similar but different [...]
2016 was a Bitch 2016 was a bitch you said. I’ll say that… many heavyweight stars died and observatories harvested full-moons like fruit slung from low branches. [...]
The Artist – inspired by the story of Hassan Akkad The Artist sits cross-legged lone in his bedroom fortress avoiding ankles of uncles jibes from aunties’ moustaches. [...]
Lives of F, Synchronised Swimming, Ed 1. (poem 1) It is an old-fashioned August that melts. The world still turns predictably, slow and smart, public services go to work. Two well intentioned [...]
Lives of F: Young Adult. Ed 1. (poem 4) 1 Frederick, or Frederick-Danvers-Hill, (as he likes to be called), after Great Great Grandfather – the circus-star turned soot-revolution mogul, [...]
I want to speak about grief. Not the grief we feel at the loss of a person or relationship, but the grief we feel for projects, plans and visions of the near and middle future. Loss felt when a [...]
A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic – review by Tamsin Flower (Feat’ image by Marc Brenner) Script by Lucy Prebble Direction by John Crowley Lucy Prebble’s creative [...]
Madmen & Madwomen – the sub-plot of Patriarchy in White-Collar Offices. ‘The overwhelming experience of women in a society dominated by men is that of being silenced.’ [...]
Peter Gynt – National Theatre, Aug’ 19’. Review by Tamsin Flower Script by David Hare Direction by Jonathan Kent Everyone loves seducers and sociopaths…in fiction. The [...]