Ikiru (Kurosawa). Review by Alan Price. Ikiru has been translated as Living or To Live. Earlier on in the 1950/60’s it was Living and living with a six month’s only death sentence (The film’s protagonist is terminally ill with stomach cancer).
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The Trumpeter. Review by Barbara Lewis. Mariupol, where Ukraine for nearly three months in 2022 resisted Russia’s determination to create a land bridge between Crimea and Donbas, became a byword for horror.
The Comedy of Errors. Review by Barbara Lewis. This is the HandleBards’ uplifting summer tour, which after 935 miles of pedalling, brought the cycling players to a picnicking audience in the grounds of Horace Walpole’s Gothic revival mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London.
Poetry review – SPELLBOOK OF ORDINARY MISTAKES: Charles Rammelkamp is drawn into the life experiences which inspire Jane LeCroy’s poems
Poetry review – HIGH NOWHERE: Matthew M.C. Smith finds that Jean Atkin’s collection includes poems that range from the economical and to the highly evocative
Poetry review – THE ASKING: Alwyn Marriage reflects on this generous selection from Jane Hirshfield’s work
Poetry review – A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD: Tina Cole finds a quiet strength in the latest collection by Michael W Thomas
Poetry review – CHOSEN POEMS: D A Prince welcomes this careful selection of Ruth Bidgood’s poems compiled by Merryn Williams
Pirandello In Context. Review by Alan Price. Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is best known for his 1921 stage play Six Characters in Search of an Author. It was a landmark play that changed theatre.
Poetry review – MY LOVER AS HOUDINI: Rennie Halstead considers the sense of loss conjured up in Robert Seatter’s poems about an abruptly ended love affair
Swan Lake in the Round. Review by Julia Pascal. This is the most famous of classical ballets and it was conceived for the proscenium arch Italianate style theatre of Imperial Russia when it opened with Marius Petipa’s choreography to Peter Tchaikovsky’s composition at Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet in 1895.
Marie of Romania and the Pelisor Castle. Review by Barbara Lewis. Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh became Marie of Romania after, guided by her family, she rejected a proposal from her first cousin the future King George V.
By Barbara Lewis • architecture, history, year 2024 • Tags: architecture, Barbara Lewis, history