It’s amazing to think that after very nearly 100 years Noel Coward has never really been out of fashion. There are those who argue that the world he portrayed presented a rarefied atmosphere where his glamourous mortals were...
Read MoreBuddy Holly would have been 77 on September 7th An early death usually guarantees eternal fame and beatification for rock stars. Most of the famous ones like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Harry Nilsson or Jim Morrison, died from...
Read MoreAs we all know, the Cameron-Clegg-Osborne triumvirate all went to private schools with fees now higher than the average annual wage. With half the cabinet going to fee-paying schools, arguably there is again a need to...
Read More“…when people turn violent, you know you’ve told the truth” Yael Farber’s Mies Julie is an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, transplanted from a ballroom in nineteenth-century Sweden to a kitchen in post-apartheid...
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King Lear is, along with Hamlet, a sort of gauge of an actor’s skill. They are the parts by which...
Read MoreArt about the power of art has to deal with the tricky task of being inspiring without being overly worthy; of conveying a higher feeling without being pompous or patronising. Writer Lee Hall has done it before with Billy...
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