MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Bubble
Groundbreaking global theatrical event goes online on April 23
GLOBAL REACH: Bubble
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
“I WAS THERE, you know, when we shut your places down. Gender studies, social studies, the strongholds of your politically correct bullshit worldview, we shut them down. And I was there and the news cameras were there and the whole world was watching.”
That's one of the incendiary statements by a student performer in award-winning playwright Kieran Hurley’s new play Bubble, set entirely on Facebook. The play tracks the unexpected snowball of online events following the moment a male lecturer calls a female student a slut.
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