If you ever wanted to know what your neighbor was up to, Balzac probably wrote about it. He meticulously chronicled Parisians’ lives in his opus magnumLa Comédie Humaine. It is a series of interconnected novels and stories, amounting to 91 finished and 46 unfinished works, for a total of...
On 23rd March ,when the UK entered into a form of suspended public life, in all homes across the land, millions of us pondered first to know how and then scrambled into actions designed to survive whatever the unseen threat of Covid-19 might throw at us.At the start, I took to heart...
Maude brought her indefatigable talent and energy toCuttingsasdramaturg. For Jo – known mostly for writing books and short stories – what followed was a theatre “intensive”. With Maude as her dedicated ‘support crew’, Jo dove deep into the ocean of playwriting, carefully ...
Brexit and Black Lives Matter. It’s a topical festival featuring a series of shows built around true stories. Staged at Rich Mix, Shipbuilding featuresLivia Kojo Alour A.K.A MisSawith her debut full length show, Black Sheep on
Like an awful lot of other books that seem to be around at the moment (or possibly it’s just me reading these kinds of stories) this has an And Then There Were None feel to it. A group of people, a family this time, go to a remote location for a celebration but one by one th...
UsingTroveI read all the assassination/war related articles in the Newcastle Morning Herald, and tabulated a count of the number stories each day. It is interesting to note that after the initial flourish of articles in the wake of the assassination news from Europe subsided to almost nothing, ...