An ITV film called Compulsion written by Joshua St Johnston and directed by Sarah Harding was shown on television on 4th May. It was claimed that Compulsion was 'inspired by' Middleton and Rowley's Jacobean tragedy The Changeling; as I could not even recall if I had seen, let alone read, this play I was impelled …
Category: theatre
April Miscellany (2009)
A documentary film first. Afghan Star directed by Havana Marking, which won a prize at the 2009 Sundance Festival, told the extraordinary story of the introduction of an American Idol/X-Factor type show in Afghanistan. Music was banned by the Taliban and the producers of the show (Afghan Star) obviously faced considerable problems when they decided to …
Waiting for Godot
No, not an introduction to some general musings on existence! Instead a note of a trip to see a very remarkable production of the play at Malvern. The cast comprised Ian McKellen as Estragon, Patrick Stewart as Vladimir, Simon Callow as Pozzo and Ronald Pickup as Lucky. It is, I would imagine, highly improbable that …
Winter Diary
Now that I have settled in here and put all the essential posts in the February archive, I will produce something a bit more current. Or catch up with lost months of December and January anyway. Lost of course to Depression. It has been a very bad eight months. Since July only October was wholly …
Moving Toyshop 