Maison Bonaparte. Review by Barbara Lewis. Napoléon Bonaparte was born into a noble family in Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, and left around nine years later for France, where he took up a scholarship at the Brienne military academy.The house where he was born is now a museum remarkable for its less than total enthusiasm for Corsica’s most famous son.
year 2025
Poetry review – BATHING ON THE ROOF: Pat Edwards considers how Tracey Rhys looks at feminist issues through the medium of water
Poetry review – CONSTRUCTING A WITCH: Nick Cooke is impressed by Helen Ivory’s energetic and zealously defiant poems
Poetry review – THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF OPHELIA: Charles Rammelkamp manages to keep up with Robert Cooperman’s extensive re-working of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Poetry review – FOXGLOVEWISE: Colin Pink admires the technical expertise behind Ange Mlinko’s imaginative and evocative poems
Kubrick An Odyssey. Review by Alan Price. Throughout late 1980’s and all of the 1990’s the question that moviegoers often asked was what’s Kubrick up to now? We were aware that Stanley Kubrick took a long time creating a film because of his fastidious micro-managing of every aspect of filmmaking.
Poetry review – LANDSCAPES OF THE EXILED: Charles Rammelkamp commends Alan Catlin’s bleak poems as highly appropriate for the current troubled times
Tempest Project. Review by Barbara Lewis. On March 21, Peter Brook would have been a hundred. To celebrate the birthday his beloved Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris is staging his and Shakespeare’s final project.
Poetry review – MISSING PERSON: Vanessa Lampert admires both the perceptiveness and the kindness of Nicholas Hogg’s observations
Punch, Young Vic. Review by Will Staveley. Based on the memoir Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunne, the play tells the book’s story; of how its writer inadvertently kills a trainee paramedic, James Hodgkinson, with a single punch on a night out in Nottingham. It is as uncompromising a work as it sounds, and one which left good amounts of the audience in tears, shock, or a combination of the two.
Impressionist Paris. Review by Barbara Lewis. Impressionist Paris, A Panoramic View of Paris in French Impressionism. Published by Hannibal Books to coincide with the exhibition New Paris: From Monet to Morisot at the Kunstmuseum in the Hague until June 9
Poetry review – SUNBATHING WITH FISHERMEN: Emma Storr admires the strength of feeling in Penny Sharman’s poems whether they are dealing with pain and loss or joy and pleasure
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