The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child. by Helen Donlon. “I hung out in St. Germain. Picking up cigarettes from the street. One day, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Come with me, we need you.’
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Lies, lies, lies! They make your head spin – but they make the world go round too… The King’s Head Theatre presents the World Premiere of a new comedy The Truth-Teller by David Crook Director Svetlana Dimcovic Designer Christian Taylor
* THE SPRING 2012 ISSUE OF LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features poems by: *Neil Curry *Nabin Kumar Chhetri *Roy Marshall *B.Z. Niditch *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Fiona Sinclair *Marjorie Sweetko *Ian Parks *Thomas Roberts *Siobhan Campbell *Margaret Hollingsworth *Nancy Mattson *Maggie Butt *Donald Atkinson *Shanta Acharya *Wix Hutton *Stephen Oliver *F.M.Brown *Katherine Venn
Thomas Ovans considers three recent pamphlet collections: True Crime by Julie Lumsden; Mr Right by Steven Blyth; and Homing In by Mo Gallaccio
Leah Fritz talks to Patricia Oxley about editing Acumen poetry magazine, running the Torbay festival and being awarded the MBE
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews Protest by David Floyd, The Manager by Robin Vaughan-Williams and Boring the Arse off Young People by Martin Figura
Don McCullin’s ‘Shaped by War’ Both the persona and work of Don McCullin, conflict photographer and self confessed “war junkie”, have always held a mesmeric allure over me.
The Passenger English National Opera (until 25 October) Yes it is shocking to set an opera in Auschwitz. It shouldn’t work. But it does. David Pountney’s startling production of Mieczylaw Weinberg’s 1968 The Passenger breaks new ground.
“I’m not having an affair. It’s better than that …” (Haunted Child’s Douglas, played by Ben Daniels) Haunted Child is the latest offering to the Royal Court from Joe Penhall. Sadly, this Jeremy Herrin directed three hander falls rather short of expectation.
The State vs John Hayes. At the beginning of 2012 there were 58 women on death row in America. The State vs John Hayes is a searing seventy minute monologue by one such woman.
Mike Barlow reviews Finns and Amazons – a new collection by Nancy Mattson
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2012