Since 2012
A sharply satirical attack on unevenly applied 19th-century laws to enforce religious observance still bites today
Rich or Poor, or Saint and Sinner
The poor man’s sins are glaring;
In the face of ghostly warning
He is caught in the fact
Of an overt act —
Buying greens on Sunday morning.
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler’s classic that doesn’t quite coalesce Gary Owen’s gentle dance of linked fragments joins a long list of plays taking after Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, an 1897 drama structured as a kind of musical chairs. With interlocking scenes between two actors at a time, they rotate every few minutes. It’s a useful device for packing variety into a single story, like tossing a big salad of ideas. Though neatly performed by its young cast, this new, modern-day mix by the writer of…
Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author After the phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the author writes in her new memoir Book of Lives. Over 600 pages this “memoir of sorts” ranges from her childhood growing up in the Canadian backwoods to her grief at the death of her partner of 48 years, the writer Graeme Gibson, in 2019, with many friendships, the occasional spat and…
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