One of the strengths of this piece of thoughtful social melodrama is that, by the end, any credibility stretched by the child-mob scenario is less important than the way we are moved to analyse our own response to one manifestation of historic institutionalised British child abuse.
Lucca, Italy, was the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini in 1858 in an apartment that is now a museum to the last and most famous of generations of Puccini maestros, restored to its Second Empire glory, down to a bed, surrounded by columns, that replicates the one in which Puccini was born.
Thomas Ovans picks his way through the varied themes in a debut collection by Pauline Sewards
The Museum Carlo Bilotti is located in the elegant edifice of the Orangery in the park of Villa Borghese. It is one of the many and interesting museums of the Municipality of Rome scattered around the capital, and is free of charge.
The Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin once declared “Nothing is too Good for Ordinary People”* and as a founder of the radical Tecton group he designed municipal housing which combined the creation of healthy spaces, where people could live healthy lives, with the expression of his modernist aesthetic.
Just as Keats’ elliptic “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is comprehensible in context, the meaning of Che Walker’s “Time is Love/Tiempo es Amor” is made apparent by this superbly acted and eloquent 90 minutes of drama.
Paintings by Howard Fritz at the Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX from January 12th 2019
D A Prince is captivated by the craft & originality evident in Philip Hancock’s language and themes
An enthralling survey of ancient myths is the central idea of Ovid’s exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.
Richie McCaffery discovers that D M Black’s ‘light verse’ can in fact go very deep
Richie McCaffery admires a remarkable hybrid of journal and autobiography by M R Peacocke
Celebrating 70 years of public service
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety