Talking talking happy talk

This week on CW, Dolan Cummings interviews Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, who claims the shootings were the work of disturbed individuals rather than the product of empty materialism or gun culture. Hamish Todd compares two versions of Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, investigating his familiar motifs of lost faith, redeeming love and the inimate relationship between theatre and everyday life. Meanwhile, Jo Caird’s reviews of new fiction include a look at obsessive love, and an exploration of the ups and downs of the ‘immigrant experience.

And CW’s resident thespians take a look this week at As you like it at the Globe, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at the Duke of Yorks, and Been so Long at the Young Vic - which isn’t quite as gutsy as it might seem.

26 July, 2009