London Grip Poetry Review – Mark Mansfield
Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking
La Malady of Love, Katie Mitchell, Barbican Theatre. Review by Julia Pascal.
This piece of theatre is inspired by La Maladie de la Mort, Marguerite Duras’ 1982 novella. The original text explored a homosexual’s purchase of a woman in a vain search for love.
Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, Arcola Theatre. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt defied theatre’s limitations with a vast cast, sprawling action and special effects.
In Transit : Poems of Travel
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
London Grip Poetry Review – Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty
London Grip Poetry Review – James Roderick Burns
Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns
London Grip Poetry Review – Josephine Corcoran
Josephine Corcoran’s poetry succeeds in addressing both actual and imagined experience, observes Emma Lee
London Grip Poetry Review – Three Poets from Finland
Roger Caldwell is intrigued – but sometimes perplexed – by the work of three Finnish poets writing in English
The End of Eddy, Unicorn Theatre. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Under Stewart Laing’s inspired direction, four permanently-glowing screens help to convey the bigoted characters of a charmless northern French village, where violence, shame, pride, racism and homophobia form the fabric of society.
Wasted, Southwark Playhouse. Review by Barbara Lewis.
In our blasé age, we may take for granted that a remote Yorkshire parsonage managed to produce three sisters who defied rigid Victorian convention to give voice to raw passions and sexual frustration no respectable woman was meant to feel.
London Grip Poetry Review- Ann Vaughan-Williams
Martin Noutch respects Ann Vaughan-Williams’ poetry for its inclusiveness that finds nothing to be unworthy of being appreciated
London Grip Poetry Review – Richie McCaffery
Stuart Henson enjoys Richie McCaffery’s conversational and sharp-witted poetry – and his knack of crafting a good punch-line.