MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Kiss of death by video
Uniformity of ‘talking heads’ presentation annihilates all possibility of conveying the true drama inherent in the play, suggests GORDON PARSONS
L to R) Toy Soldierand Zaporozhian (Cossack)
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
Planet Speranta
Finborough Theatre Online
FINBOROUGH Theatre’s Frontier has unearthed this 1965 work by a leading Soviet-Ukrainian playwright, Oleksii Kolomiiets, for its Voices From Ukraine programme of YouTube plays and interviews.
Planet Speranta (Hope) has five WWII Soviet soldiers holed up in a Ukrainian bunker surrounded by German troops.
One by one they are anonymously ordered out, presumably on a desperate attempt to report to their base while those left discuss life, love, fear and death.
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