I'll be visiting with Nell again, even if I will be frustrated by the social restrictions that also frustrate her.
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Theater Review (London): I Saw Myself
Sleev is super-intelligent, manipulative, and magnificent. With a different set of genitals she'd have made a superb king.
Read More »Theater Review (London): Days of Significance by the RSC at the Tricycle
The subject is Iraq, and the "heroes" are the achingly young, ill-educated lads who wind up in the British army ranks.
Read More »Theater Review (London): Believe at the New End
If you're a man with a guilty conscience about how you've treated a woman, you should go - the nightmares should be good for your soul.
Read More »Theater Review (London): Walking on Water at the White Bear, Kennington
Superb acting and neat writing can't entirely save this depressing story we've seen many times before.
Read More »Book Review: Cleaning Up – How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived by Tania Glyde
A personal account fails to explain Britain's binge drinking "epidemic".
Read More »Book Review: World Without End by Ken Follett
He's not a great writer, or even a good one, but he's a great storyteller.
Read More »Book Review – A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury
She's the perfect dashing detective - good with a gun, a decent pilot, an astonishingly keen observer, an expert on all of the regular poisons.
Read More »Book Review: The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay – Life in Medieval Africa by Particia and Frederick McKissack
A fine introductory account of three of the world's great kingdoms that are too little-known.
Read More »Theater Review (London): The Lightning Field at the Oval House, South London
There are plenty of laughs in this fast-moving one-act production, but "light" it certainly isn't.
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