-
Recent Posts
Tags
Archives
-
Follow me on Twitter
Tweets by mkmswainLinks
Tag Archives: ancient greece
Girl on an Altar, Kiln Theatre
Marina Carr’s new twist on Ancient Greek tragedy spells out too much, but it’s superbly acted and pungently topical. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged agamemnon, ancient greece, clytemnestra, girl on an altar, iphigenia, kiln theatre, london, marina carr, marriage, murder, oresteia, play, review, telegraph, theatre, trojan war, ukraine war
Leave a comment
Rodin and Ancient Greece, An Ideal Husband, Tully and sharp women
On my June MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Exhibition The British Museum explores Rodin’s relationship with Ancient Greek sculpture Film An unflinching look at motherhood in Tully Theatre Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband – with double the Foxy charm Commuter corner Michelle Dean’s Sharp: The Women Who Made … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged an ideal husband, ancient greece, art, book, british museum, charlize theron, commute, commuter, edward fox, exhibition, feminist, film, freddie fox, june, london, magazine, michelle dean, mother, motherhood, moveto, moveto town and country, movie, museum, oscar wilde, parent, play, read, review, rodin, sculpture, sharp The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, summer, theatre, things to do, tully, visit london, west end
Leave a comment
Xanadu, Southwark Playhouse
It trashed Olivia Newton-John’s film career, halted the movie-musical revival, and was so critically reviled it led to the creation of the Razzies. How, then, could the stage version of hubristic 1980 flop Xanadu become a 2007 Broadway hit? The answer, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged 1980s, 80s, america, ancient greece, andrew lloyd webber, andrews sisters, art, artist, australian, broadway, california, calliope, camp, christmas, clio, comedy, dancing, disco, drama, eighties, elo, evil woman, festive, film, gene kelly, greek, jazz, jeff lynne, leg warmers, london, mount olympus, movie, muse, musical, Nathan M Wright, olivia newton-john, pastiche, physical, play, pop, review, rock, roller skate, rolling skating, satire, singing, skating, southwark playhouse, swing, tap, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, venice beach, vogue, xanadu, zeus
Leave a comment
McCrory magnetic in an electrifying production
It’s an “unthinkable” crime, yet all too fathomable in Carrie Cracknell’s electrifying production of Medea. Her modern setting for Euripides’ masterpiece is unobtrusive, allowing the discomfort that comes from viewing horror in a familiar setting to creep upon us during … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged ancient greece, argonauts, carrie cracknell, children, dance, drama, euripides, fates, golden fleece, goldfrapp, greek tagedy, ham and high, hampstead, helen mccrory, jason, london, medea, mother, murder, myth, national theatre, review, theatre
Leave a comment
MARIANKA SWAIN ~ WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW 