Postcard from China, 4
So is it permitted to acknowledge that one is just a teensy bit underwhelmed by what is reputed to be one of the great sites - and sights - of the ancient world? We have been in Xi'an since Monday more
So is it permitted to acknowledge that one is just a teensy bit underwhelmed by what is reputed to be one of the great sites - and sights - of the ancient world? We have been in Xi'an since Monday more
Since Saturday afternoon we have been in Pingyao, from where we leave on Monday morning to fly to Xi'an. Pingyao is quite wonderful and like nowhere else I have been before, as is the Yide Hotel where more
Friday afternoon, towards the end of the first week of our China holiday. We are in Datong in the north of the country, not so far from Beijing. In the late fifth century CE (around the time of the last more
I'm a little uncertain about whether to contribute this post. After all, I'm off on a family holiday and not travelling for Illuminations. Mostly when I have done Postcards from foreign climes before I have been filming or researching or more
Today I fly with my family to Beijing for a three week holiday (which I hope partly explains the lack of posts during this past week). I have no sense of how easy or difficult it will be to blog more
Last weekend I was in Stratford-upon-Avon for Midsummer Night's Dreaming and for the one before I was at a conference. So apologies for the missing Links... Today's bumper edition aims to go some way to making good (treat the current version more
On Thursday we filmed a scene from John Lyly's 1584 play Sapho and Phao for the Shakespearean London Theatres project (ShaLT). That day I wrote Gentle ladies and gentlemen... John Lyly!!!, a post about the dramatist more
... when we think about The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable? Which is, of course, the latest immersive extravaganza from Punchdrunk, co-presented with The National Theatre (until 30 December). For background see Andrew Dickson's feature more
Gentles all, put your hands together, please, for Mr John Lyly. We'll come to he actually was in a moment, but first consider this: on Thursday the Illuminations team is filming a scene from his celebrated drama Sapho more
I want to tell you a story. It's short and, I hope, a bit quirky. Maybe it has connections with #Dream40 this weekend, but if it does those links are quite oblique. Rather, take it as a little more