Category: Gender
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Stop Getting Bond Wrong 3
In which we examine how Bond’s actors responded to changing notions of masculinity and the world around them.
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Stop Getting Bond Wrong 1
In which we examine the Bond film franchise through our lens of political and cultural economy.
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The Production Boundary
Who does unwaged labour, who captures the value of it, how that arrangement was built and is maintained and what we might do about it.
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Sexy Greedy: Caryl Churchill, the City Comedy, and the World Big Bang Made
Serious Money: A deep dive into an essential English drama
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PIG IRON 6B: The Work of Love
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore how Care is and Should be Valued
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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Medea @sohoplace theatre review *****
Medea @sohoplace, 17thh March 2023 April 431 BCE. Day 5. City Dionysia. Athens. Aeschylus’s boy Euphorion has already paraded his dramatic wares as has arch-rival (and more successful) Sophocles. Euripides rocks up with his 3 tragedies, Dictys (no, me neither), Philoctetes (misanthropic soldier, later a winning tale for Sophocles) and,…
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Swive at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse review ****
Swive Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, 3rd February 2020 I am very partial to the work of Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent, Boys, Oil, The Writer, ANNA, all have met their, expansive, ambition. Splendid theatre with something powerful to say. With Swive she has collaborated with director Natalie Abrahami, (who marshalled cast…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 