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Thoughts
The Classics…
I’m rather a fan of classical music. Classic FM has been banned by my less-classically-inclined other half from long car journeys, as he thinks the same pieces are just played on repeat. He’s wrong, of course, they just sound the same to his disinterested ears. This interpretation is mirrored by my perception of his beloved
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
The Leonardo Da Vinci show at the National Gallery sold out months in advance. People were camping out front to secure a place in the queue – sometimes waiting for 12 hours – and then still not getting to view the work of the Master. I love art – but not enough to camp on
Random (play by Debbie Tucker)
I wrote this theatre review during my Journalism MA at London College of Communication for the Arts London. Random was televised recently – reminding me of its brilliance. In the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre market stalls are shutting down and cafés are wiping away the remnants of today’s business. It feels like time for
Opening Night – The Secret Staircase
After a busy day of ladder-climbing, scalpel-wielding, frame-hanging and plinth-painting – The Secret Staircase exhibition was hung, arranged, laid out and ready for the opening night. Artist Caroline Isgar and author Michele Roberts initially displayed The Secret Staircase exhibition in London’s Foundling Museum. They used tokens that had been left with babies by their mothers,
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
This sliver of a book has remained sandwiched between two bigger, more epic-looking classics, for a while. My experience of Anne Tyler’s novels is limited – I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award, a few years ago. It was amazing. But then I forgot about
The Secret Staircase exhibition
The opening of The Secret Staircase exhibition at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, this Thursday – will mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2012 – but will also be exactly a year since I began working for the Rook Lane Arts Trust. To begin on IWD – and then to launch my final exhibition on IWD –
Medea by Euripedes
This Ancient Greek tragedy treads fearlessly over the obsessive jealousy experienced by a lover-spurned. In this instance it is the woman, Medea, who is left by her husband – and the father of her two children – for a younger Princess. She is fuming. Medea, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, proved her love for –