Category: Theatre
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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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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Experience Economy Eats Itself
In which we conclude that genuine experience is more resilient than the system that tries to sell it.
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Cymbeline: Shakespeare and the Search for National Identity
A diversion in which we examine Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and its commentary on the conception of British nationhood.
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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,…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 