Links for the weekend
Read of the week - if 'read' is the right word - has to be the Guardian's remarkable round-up of the implications of the Snowden revelations in its digital presentation NSA Files: Decoded. You should also most definitely more
Read of the week - if 'read' is the right word - has to be the Guardian's remarkable round-up of the implications of the Snowden revelations in its digital presentation NSA Files: Decoded. You should also most definitely more
Far be it from me to rain on the National Theatre's fiftieth birthday parade, but allow me to make a few slightly-less-than-gushing remarks about the recent two-part Arena documentary and tonight's compilation album of extracts. (The two films are on more
First day of the new month, and just twelve to go until the Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast to UK cinemas of the RSC's Richard II (full details and links to ticket sales here). On Sunday the more
Last week I saw on consecutive nights the National Theatre's production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and Headlong's 1984 (above, in a production photograph by Tristram Kenton). The former, now closed, was directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, the more
Earlier this month I was delighted to make a very modest contribution to a conference in Oxford about Louis MacNeice, radio writer and producer co-organised by my Screen Plays colleague Dr Amanda Wrigley. Amanda and Professor more
Back in June I had more than a few sceptical words about the Royal Shakespeare Company's collaboration with Google, Midsummer Night's Dreaming. Truth to tell, I thought it was a misconceived mess, although with a glorious live event more
On Thursday evening Arena premiered the first of two films looking back at the history of the National Theatre. I am going to wait for the second to air before posting about them, but I do want to look today at more
I was particularly sorry today to learn of the death at the age of 89 of sculptor Anthony Caro. Like many others, I believe that he was a great artist, and he was also – at least on the evidence more
In 1966 Peter Brook and the Royal Shakespeare Company mounted a collaboratively devised stage show titled US. The subject was our relationship to and responsibility for the Vietnam War. The following year, with a minimal budget raised in part by more
Unsurprisingly perhaps, I have been posting a lot recently about Richard II. As a consequence of that, today's weekly post is rather shorter than usual. I should perhaps say that we had an excellent time at the opening night on more