Tag Archives: german

Young Marx, Bridge Theatre

Posted on October 29, 2017 by mkmswain

Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr’s enterprise is certainly an historic one: The Bridge is London’s first new wholly commercial theatre in 80 years. If its opening play isn’t the same landmark work, it’s nevertheless an auspicious start to a promising … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged bridge theatre, broadwayworld, children, class, clive coleman, comedy, communist, engels, family, farce, german, london, marriage, marx, nicholas hytner, nick starr, oliver chris, play, politician, politics, refugee, review, revolution, richard bean, rory kinnear, sex, socialism, soho, the bridge, theatre, victorian, visit london, young marx | Leave a comment

Mostly build-up…debatable climax

Posted on May 8, 2014 by mkmswain

“How long do you intend to draw this out?” So enquires German philosopher Adorno of his student-turned-extorter, who claims to possess the material influential academic Walter Benjamin smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Paris shortly before his death. Yet the question could … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged adorno, carl djerassi, foreplay, german, germany, hannah Arendt, islington, islington gazette, kings head theatre, london, nazi, north london, philosophy, porn, pub, review, science, the pill, theatre, walter benjamin, war | Leave a comment

Perchance to dream

Posted on July 10, 2013 by mkmswain

A hot, sluggish summer’s day is the perfect preparation for this sweltering trip to the Catskills, a mountainous retreat north of New York City where, in Richard Greenberg’s rendering, hazy contentment masks desperately stifled desires. The livin’ is easy, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV | Tagged american dream, bath, catskills, chekhov, diana quick, dirty dancing, dr darcy, drama, f scott fitzgerald, german, henry james, jewish, new york, play, pride and prejudice, review, richard greenberg, st james theatre, tennessee williams, the american plan, the great gatsby, ustinov studio, war, WASP, west end | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: german

Young Marx, Bridge Theatre

Mostly build-up…debatable climax

Perchance to dream

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