Category: Reviews + Poetry
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Self-harm as spectacle in “Measure for Measure” (Donmar Warehouse, 2018)
Sometimes a play can be so callous, so poorly-judged, so utterly tone-deaf that one isn’t sure whether to laugh or cry. On this occasion, however, my mind is rather made up.
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Fatherly and Fearsome: the Ghost in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)
Does Branagh’s “Hamlet” offer audiences the most complete and compelling version of the Ghost to be put to film. I think so.
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The List ~ a poem
A couple of years ago, I overheard a conversation between a group of boys at the student bar. They were, as young men are prone to do in packs, discussing women – specifically, the various reasons why they’d dumped their exes. Some of these reasons were very silly indeed…
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Review: “Vincent and the Doctor” (s5, ep10)
A long time ago, a young man became lord of all space and time. He saw things that no human eye had ever seen; heard what no human ear had ever heard. He danced to the music of the sunlight and stared up at the stars. He listened to songs of sunflowers. His kingdom was…
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Review: “Tromeo and Juliet” (1997), dir. Lloyd Kaufman
Tromeo and Juliet is a schlock horror adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that, in its own distasteful way, possesses much more charm and intelligence than one might expect from a film which transforms Juliet into a cow-monster. In this review, I sift through the grotesque humour and terrible jokes in order to uncover some…
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