More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’ Written in 1919, it has...
Read MoreWhen I was boy in the 1960s (when people had to read real books), the racks of paperbacks outside newsagents often held two best-selling titles by Lord Russell of Liverpool – The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of...
Read MoreThis extraordinary piece of almost-dance is the result of a collaboration between two companies, Gecko and Mind the Gap. Gecko makes physical theatre which I find fascinating and often astonishing while Mind the Gap makes work...
Read MoreThe iPhone has a lot to answer for. Until its arrival in 2010, picture messaging was too expensive for young people to use. The iPhone changed all that. Suddenly, kids were taking pictures of everything and sending them...
Read MoreOnce upon a time there was a very good theatre director called Sarah Punshon who got a job as artistic director at the Dukes Playhouse in Lancaster where she did some excellent work including a wonderful summer show in...
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