A slightly fuller list of links (and a perhaps moderately more considered one) after last week's tentative return to this format, with a clutch of articles that I have found fascinating and enriching. Many thanks to all those who alerted me more
Summer's over and - yes - I've delivered the first draft manuscript of my book. (It's about film and television adaptations of RSC stage productions.) So let's see if I can return to my weekly list of links to things more
One of several reasons that I stopped blogging many months ago was my questioning of why anyone in the world might be interested. Especially in a post like this which is essentially what-I-did-on-a-two-day-break-in-Paris. But if I think that essentially I'm more
Our production with the Almeida of Robert Icke's staging of Hamlet only has a few days left on BBCiPlayer. You can catch it here until Monday 30 April. Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre’s 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare’s great play, recorded more
Our colleague TOM ALLEN reflects on postmodernism and history, on the ideas of Frederic Jameson and Karl Marx, and on the art of Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was recently re-reading the first chapter of Frederic Jameson's more
My new approach to Links seemed to work reasonably well, at least for a few days. So this is version 2, with some of the previous links, and many new ones - although I am still uncertain about when and more
Above is the temporary control room we have built for the weekend of 17-19 February at London's National Gallery. We are shooting a complex and ambitious Performance Live film titled Winged Bull in the Elephant Case which will be shown on BBC more
A time there was, when I posted here regularly, that each week I compiled a set of Sunday links. I fell out of the habit, but now I am trying the new approach below. In eight categories I am listing up to five recommended more
Links from the past week, with the usual thanks to those who prompted them via Twitter and in other ways, and apologies for not acknowledging you individually. In this dim and dismal world, one welcome piece of news was that more
It's unlikely that anyone will have noticed, but whether about links or anything else I have not posted here for some six weeks. Moreover, my contributions in the months before that were, well let's just say... sporadic. Maybe they are destined more