Tag Archives: abortion

BWW Interview: Dr Daniel Sokol

Posted on August 27, 2019 by mkmswain

The medical ethicist discusses his consultation on Robert Icke’s The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre. Read my full interview here

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The Doctor, Almeida Theatre

Posted on August 21, 2019 by mkmswain

Robert Icke, an associate director at the Almeida for the past six years, bids farewell in typically bold and epic fashion with his latest contemporary update. Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi, which premiered in 1912, has been skilfully reconfigured as an interrogation of … Continue reading →

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Waste, National Theatre

Posted on December 4, 2015 by mkmswain

A principled reformer destroyed by a combination of sex scandal, religious hypocrisy and machine politics: Harvey Granville Barker’s drama, banned by the Lord Chamberlain in 1907, still feels eerily pertinent. However, in Roger Michell’s arid production of this overlong play, … Continue reading →

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Till death do us part

Posted on June 16, 2013 by mkmswain

In 1928, in Nijar in the Spanish province of Almeria, Francisco Montes Canada was shot dead after fleeing a wedding with the prospective bride, his cousin Francisca. The murder was carried out by the groom’s brother and this grisly matrimonial … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Journalism, Theatre | Tagged abortion, blood wedding, bride, divorce, drama, family, feminism, groom, kenneth branagh, lorca, marriage, much ado about nothing, play, review, shakespeare, spain, spanish, theatre, waterloo east, wedding | Leave a comment

A womb of one’s own

Posted on March 11, 2013 by mkmswain

It’s not often you find yourself sympathising with both Communist and Nazi social policy, but that’s the unusual position one might be forced to take when viewing the compelling A Time to Reap at the Royal Court. Burgeoning Polish playwright … Continue reading →

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