When Christopher Marlowe wrote Doctor Faustus at the end of the 16th century, he was already drawing on German accounts of a medieval legend with eternal and universal reach. Two centuries later, the epic struggle of good and evil was translated back into German in Goethe’s towering tragedy.
This epic work dates from 2000 and 18 years later it still has moments that beguile. Körper means Bodies and the 13 international dancers nearly all wear white underpants as a uniform that unerotically emphasises flesh, bones and blood.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy appreciates the warmth and variety in Rose Cook’s recent collection.
Stuart Henson approves the Very Selected concept in general and Michael Laskey’s volume in particular
Emma Lee takes a cool look at the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird
Isabel Dixon of Burn Bright Theatre has dramatised Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein two hundred years after its first publication, with two women as its protagonists, Elizabeth Frankenstein and the creature, played by Danielle Winter and Elizabeth Schenk.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: * M W Bewick *Frank Dullaghan *Anne Ballard *Mary Michaels *Sanjeev Sethi *Ray Miller * Richard Lewis *Thomas McColl *Stephen Claughton *Phil Kirby * Stuart Pickford *Heidi Williamson * Sarah James *Kate Noakes * Carol DeVaughn * Jim C Wilson * P W Bridgman […]
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
Nick Cooke relishes Stephen Bone’s poetic exploration of some darker aspects of botany
Sands Films Cinema Club of Rotherhithe regularly shows well-known classics and rarely-seen gems as part of a programme designed to bring the best of world cinema to a London audience.
Rip Bulkeley describes the planning and production of a forthcoming anthology of poems responding to the fire in Grenfell Tower .
The East End of London was a crucible for radical ideas and activism, including the women’s suffrage movement, fired in part by the deprivation and inequality experienced by so many of its inhabitants.
By Jane McChrystal • exhibitions, history, politics, society, year 2018 • Tags: exhibitions, history, Jane McChrystal, politics, society