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Reading
Shakespeare
The Rough Guide to Shakespeare, by Andrew Dixon, How
to Read Shakespeare, by Nicholas Royle, William Shakespeare,
in his times, for our times, by Michael Rosen
Lionel
Trilling never counterposed character and politics as Rosen does; seeing
them rather as entwined. Rosen may wish to rescue the radicalism of
Shakespeare, but he needn't bin 'character analysis' in doing so.
Munira Mirza
'Let's
call it what it is: it's queer' interview with Adriano Shaplin, the Riot Group
'It's
annoying to me that naturalism in the theatre persists and is even the
high water mark against which my work is judged, whether I connect with
audiences emotionally.'
Dolan Cummings
Say
it like it is
poetics at the Edinburgh Festivals 2005
I've
never been quite so minded to throw the book at a bunch of performers
- preferably Seven Types of Ambiguity - in the hope that it would imbed
itself in one of their foolish young heads, as I was at Aisle 16's Poetry
Boy Band.
Shirley Dent
You've
got a tongue in your head after all
interview with Danny Morrison, Irish republican and playwright
While
I'm dealing with an Irish situation with people living very claustrophobic
lives for what they believe to be a noble cause, there are universals.
I would like people to view it as human beings: imagine if I was in
those circumstances, which side would I be on, and how would I have
reacted?
Dolan Cummings
Pakistan
through the window
Identity construction in Hindi cinema
Indian
film, like Hollywood, is both a leader and follower of public opinion.
In portraying foreign characters it reflects what it believes to be
the popular attitudes of the times, but it also turns these often vague
attitudes into concrete images.
Arti Shukla
The
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates and the American Dream
Yates'
charting of the descent of American consciousness away from the cliché
of pioneering, blind optimism and exuberance to weary insecurity and
alienation is an achievement that reaches beyond any genre.
Natasha Hulugalle
BAC-chat:
critics, audiences and the importance of the café bar
Interview with David Jubb, artistic director, BAC
Jubb
sees something absurd in the way we read a review in the Guardian, for
example, with such reverence. Imagine fifty or sixty people going to
the café bar after a show, he says, and instead of discussing
the show with each other, listening while one expert holds forth.
Dolan Cummings
The
Producers, and other offences against common decency
The Producers, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
You
trust the stranger sitting next to you a) not to be a Nazi and b) to
have the same sense of wit and fun - whatever their ethnic, religious
or cultural background - as yourself.
Shirley Dent
Interview:
Stuart Silver
One
half of Noble and Silver on art, comedy, and defying the expectations
of the critics
'We
like that very personal feel, and that feel of blurring genres. One
of the reasons for going into comedy was that we didn't know what was
going to happen there and we thought it would be a challenge.'
Dolan Cummings
Don't
Shoot the Messenger!
Tracey Emin and the philosophy of confessional culture
Intimacy,
or its absence, is a recurring theme in Emin's work: there is a residual
intimacy in the unmade bed, and in the tents, beach huts and abrasive
experiences Emin wishes to share. Her true goal is for her private world
to be perceived publicly.
Patrick Hayes
The
trouble with being human these days
Identity, by Zygmunt Bauman
The
demise of social 'narrative' has not led to greater individual freedom,
but to unreflective conformism to what is considered to be human nature.
Dolan Cummings
Review:
Our
Last Great Illusion: a Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy
Culture
Rob Weatherill
As
a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Weatherill
gives central prominence in explaining therapy culture to the changing
nature of intimate family relations. To wit: the death of the Oedipus
complex.
Patrick Turner
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