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Tag Archives: therapy
Eavesdropping, power-games and sexual drama? This novel was written for HBO
Big Swiss, Jen Beagin’s third novel, features deceit, passion and cruel humour, and it’ll be right up Jodie Comer’s street. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged big swiss, book, comedy, drama, hbo, hudson, jen beagin, jodie comer, lesbian, new york, novel, review, satire, sex, therapy, trauma, tv
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State of the Union, series 2 review
Nick Hornby plunges into the culture wars. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Journalism, TV
Tagged bbc, brendan gleeson, counselling, culture war, marriage, nick hornby, patricia clarkson, review, state of the union, Stephen Frears, telegraph, therapy, tv
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Burn, Old Vic Online
The Old Vic has recently announced it is sticking with digital productions until at least spring 2021. That means more live-streamed work from its empty auditorium, including the upcoming return of A Christmas Carol, a Remembrance Day piece, and this new Sheila Atim … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged burn, i may destroy you, mental health, monologue, old vic, online, play, review, sheila atim, the i paper, theatre, therapy, weruche opia, world mental health day
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Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
Where does music come from? That’s the vital question posed to Sergei Rachmaninoff in Dave Malloy’s extraordinary 2015 chamber work, as the great late-Romantic Russian composer – stuck in his third year of harrowing writer’s block – tries to relocate his gift. It comes … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged alex sutton, art, artist, chekhov, composer, concerto, dahl, dave malloy, depression, failure, hypnotherapy, keith ramsay, london, mental health, mind, music, musical, musician, pianist, piano, prelude, preludes, rachel chavkin, rachmaninoff, rebecca caine, review, russia, southwark playhouse, symphony, theartsdesk, theatre, therapy, writer, writers block
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Torn, Royal Court Theatre
Family is the ideal, the necessity, the burden and the war zone of Nathaniel Martello-White’s intricate new play, alternately elusive and confrontational. It’s group therapy – Ultz provides the community hall plastic chairs and tea table – with no safeguards, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged abuse, black, broadwayworld, child, family, father, gay, mother, nathaniel martello-white, parent, poverty, race, racism, review, Richard Twyman, royal court, therapy, torn, white
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Boa, Trafalgar Studios
Casting existing partners is no guarantee of artistic success – for every Burton/Taylor, there is a Bennifer. Hannah Price has taken a risk, too, by pairing the revered Dame Harriet Walter with her comparatively unfamiliar American husband, Guy Paul, in … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged american, ballet, boa, british, cambodia, chile, clara brennan, correspondent, dance, dancer, drama, east asia, english, guy paul, hannah price, harriet walter, husband, journalist, london, love, marriage, married, memory, play, Pulitzer Prize, review, romance, sex, the arts desk, theartsdesk, therapy, trafalgar studios, transatlantic, vietnam, war, wife
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Life after death
Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave is not an easy read. I’ll say that again (it definitely bears repeating): Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave is not an easy read. It is, however, an important one. An exceptional one. And a profoundly moving one. We often … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, book, children, death, depression, family, grief, leonard cohen, life, london, loss, memoir, novel, read, review, sonali deraniyagala, sri lanka, sylvia plath, the bell jar, therapy, tsunami, wave, writing
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