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Strictly Fabulous

Posted on November 30, 2019 by mkmswain

New Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse shares her thoughts on glamming up, learning to dance, and family time. Read my full Dancing Times interview here

Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV | Tagged ballroom, bbc, celebrity, competition, dance, dancing, dancing times, emma barton, family, germany, interview, judge, judging, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, learn to dance, lets dance, motsi mabuse, oti mabuse, scd, sister, south africa, strictly, strictly come dancing, tv | Leave a comment

An Open Book: David Lan

Posted on October 17, 2015 by mkmswain

The Young Vic’s artistic director shares his favourite reads, from Steinbeck and social history to Henry James and Stanislavsky. Read my full theartsdesk interview here

Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre | Tagged artistic director, best, biography, book, brendan simms, chekhov, crime, david lan, dh lawrence, drama, Elmore Leonard, europe, favourite, fiction, graham greene, henry james, hg wells, history, interview, John Steinbeck, jonathan spence, Jonny Steinberg, joseph conrad, Michael Connelly, novel, peter brook, play, poetry, Raymond Chandler, read, robert caro, sci fi, south africa, stanislavsky, the arts desk, the empty space, The Grapes of Wrath, The Number, the portrait of a lady, theartsdesk, theatre, ts eliot, young vic, zola | Leave a comment

To coincide with the opening of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre, here are 10 great examples of the play-within-a-play, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy to groundbreaking work from Stoppard, Pirandello, Weiss and Brecht. Read my full National Theatre article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged absurdist, act, acting, alan bennett, apartheid, australia, best, brecht, britten, caucasian chalk circle, chekhov, communist, convict, criminal, de sade, drama, epic theatre, farce, farquhar, fugard, great, guard, hamlet, kyd, marat, marat/sade, metatheatre, michael frayn, national theatre, noises off, our countrys good, peter weiss, pirandello, play, play within a play, plays within plays, restoration comedy, revenge tragedy, revolution, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, shakespeare, six characters in search of an author, soldier, south africa, Stoppard, the habit of art, the island, The Recruiting Officer, the seagull, the spanish tragedy, theatre, timberlake wertenbaker, top 10, w h auden | Leave a comment

Thought-provoking encounter with a killer

Posted on June 6, 2014 by mkmswain

Are those who commit atrocities inhuman? It’s reassuring to put distance between ourselves and these ‘monsters’, but no such comfort in Nicholas Wright’s riveting, must-see A Human Being Died That Night at the Hampstead. Evil has a name, and a face, … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged a human being died that night, apartheid, drama, eugene de kock, ham and high, hampstead, hampstead theatre, hannibal, killer, london, mandela, murder, Nicholas Wright, play, prison, review, silence of the lambs, south africa, theatre, truth and reconciliation commission | Leave a comment

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Strictly Fabulous

An Open Book: David Lan

Ten great plays within plays

Thought-provoking encounter with a killer

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