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Returning to my favourite play: Dancing at Lughnasa
If we’re not watching Saoirse Ronan star in her latest feature film, we’re quoting Derry Girls from memory or fetishing Connell’s chain and fan-girling...
Comfort Films: The Secret Garden
It is fascinating to me that nostalgia, coined in the 17th century, was originally treated as a physical disease. Nostalgia was used to describe...
Finality in film: The sense of an ending
For me, it is always endings, not beginnings, which leave the most lasting impression: the ends of novels, films, historical epochs – even lives....
In Defence of a Goddess: why I love Nigella
In the comedy Miranda, Penny, Miranda’s preposterous
mother, laments that her daughter ‘hasn’t been blessed by the goddess of
socialising.’ ‘There isn’t a goddess of socialising’,...
Bare derrieres for bums on seats? Shock value on stage
By the time Iqbal Khan’s Anthony and Cleopatra reached its dénouement at the RSC, we were almost three hours in and, despite the production...
