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A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Bridge Theatre
Hot off award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and reunited with Matthew Dunster, who directed his hit Hangmen, Martin McDonagh brings his latest to the Bridge – quite a coup for Nick Hytner. Yet this provocative take on Hans Christian Andersen, and on the nature … Continue reading
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Tagged a very very very dark matter, author, belgium, book, book tickets, bridge theatre, broadwayworld, charles dickens, colonialisation, congo, fiction, hangmen, hans christian andersen, jim broadbent, london, martin mcdonagh, phil daniels, race, review, story, three billboards
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Author Interview: Yuval Zommer
The acclaimed children’s author and illustrator discusses exploring the ocean in his latest work The Big Book of the Blue. Read my full Thames & Hudson interview here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged author, book, buy, child, children, childrens book, dolphin, educational, environment, fact, global warming, jellyfish, kids, krill, learn, marine, nature, non fiction, ocean, plastic, science, sea, shark, thames and hudson, the big book of the blue, turtle, whale, writer, young reader, Yuval Zommer
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Sex with Strangers, Hampstead Theatre
This is pure titular titillation – a strategy that backfires with this dated, laboured and distinctly unsexy piece. “Serious” writer Olivia (Emilia Fox) at one point bemoans the fact that her failed first novel was falsely marketed as a chick-lit … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, broadwayworld, divergent, emilia fox, hampstead theatre, laura eason, london, love, peter dubois, publishing, review, sex, sex with strangers, theatre, theo james, writer, writing
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An Open Book: Bruce McCall
Polo played in surplus First World War tanks; zeppelin shooting as a gentlemanly leisure pursuit; mighty vessel RMS Tyrannic, proud host of the Grand Ballroom Chariot Race and so safe “that she carries no insurance”. These are just some of … Continue reading
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Tagged america, artist, author, biography, book, bruce mccall, canadian, caribbean, comic book, cover, dickens, fiction, history, illustrator, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Masefield, magazine, nabokov, national lampoon, new yorker, nonfiction, Ogden Nash, patrick leigh fermor, poem, poet, poetry, read, reading, retrofuturism, satire, saturday night live, saul bellow, shouts and murmurs, writer, zany afternoons
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Accolade, St James Theatre
Reclaiming lost plays can be unnecessary indulgence, but Blanche McIntyre’s note-perfect production of Emlyn Williams’ 64-year-old work ushers in the renaissance of a thoroughly modern masterpiece. This progressive examination of ethical relativism, trial by media and the tension between public … Continue reading
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