The Mikado, Wilton’s Music Hall. Review by Barbara Lewis. In 1885, when the Mikado began delighting audiences, it was expedient to set the splendidly silly light opera in Japan to give it maximum freedom to satirise British institutions. Director Sasha Regan travels in time not space to send up a 1950s public school camping trip, in its way as exotic as imperial Japan.
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Gypsy, The Mill at Sonning. Review by Barbara Lewis. “Mothers out!” roars the vaudeville maestro Uncle Jocky at the start of what has been fondly dubbed “the mother of all musicals”. But Gypsy Rose Lee is one mother who is staying right beside the daughters she is determined to thrust on the stage for the career she might have had had she not been born too soon or started too late.
Poetry review – THE FOX THE WHALE AND THE WARDROBE: Alex Josephy explores the world of fantasy and memory captured in Donall Dempsey’s poetry
CORONATION STREETS: ENGLAND THEN AND NOW: John Lucas reflects upon Chris Arnot’s account of how England has changed since the 1953 coronation
* THE SUMMER 2023 ISSUE OF LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: * Carla Scarano D’Antonio * Ken Pobo * James Thellusson * Glen Hunting * Jacob Mckibbin * Jill Sharp * Baraa Alassi * Rustin Larson * John Grey * John Bartlett * Phil Kirby * Jack Heslop * Colin Ian Jeffery * Stuart Pickford […]
La Regle Du Jeu (Jean Renoir) 1939 – BFI Blu Ray 2023. Review by Alan Price. Since 1952 Renoir’s La Regle Du Jeu has stood high in Sight and Sound’s poll of the greatest films of all time.
Poetry review – TRAUM/A: Peter Devonald is beguiled by the vivid impressions, recollections and memories conjured up by this innovative hybrid poetry book by JP Seabright
A reviewer reviewed: Paul McDonald browses a selection of essays by D J Taylor compiled under the title CRITIC AT LARGE
Poetry review – GOLDHAWK ROAD: Colin Pink enjoys the vivid impressions and recollections conjured up in these new poems by Kate Noakes
Poetry review – HAIL MARYS: James Roderick Burns explores an intriguingly-themed collection by Pat Edwards and finds himself wanting more
Poetry Review – THE HOUSE OF THE INTERPRETER: Stuart Henson finds a wonderful web of interconnecting threads in Lisa Kelly’s new collection
Poetry review – WE SAW IT ALL HAPPEN; Sue Wallace-Shaddad finds a strong and convincing thread running through this collection of eco-poetry by Julian Bishop
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2023 • Tags: books, ecology, poetry, Sue Wallace-Shaddad