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Does Motsi Mabuse get a ten as Strictly Come Dancing’s new judge?
Since Dame Darcey Bussell announced in April that she was hanging up her sparkly Strictly Come Dancing paddle, there’s been feverish speculation about who might replace her. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ballroom, bbc, celebrity gogglebox, champion, dancer, dancing, dancing with the stars, darcey bussell, derek hough, german, judge, judging, latin, lets dance, motsi mabuse, new, oti mabuse, shirley ballas, sister, south african, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, the greatest dancer, tv
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Young Marx, Bridge Theatre
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
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Mostly build-up…debatable climax
“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
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Perchance to dream
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
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