There’s more to Mervyn Peake than Gormenghast
I first became aware of Mervyn Peake through the BBC2 Gormenghast miniseries, bought the collected tie-in edition of the novels, and never thought to delve deeper.
Storifying
The journalist is a filter, ordering chaos to make it digestible for anyone who has the yen to understand.
Wilderness sabbatical
From now on I’ll be updating this blog only sporadically, if at all.
Reviled. Respected. Revived.
I didn’t enjoy the Lyric Hammersmith’s revival of Blasted – but you’d think I was sick if I said I had, right?
Lorca is Dead (and behind the scenes, I thought I was too)
I don’t think anyone needs me to spell out the lessons to be learned from this incident. Just don’t do what I did.
Why’s the site gone white?
The vast majority of people who know what they’re talking about agree: light text on a dark background is hurty on the eyes.
“Get dressed. The big fellah’s on his way.”
The Shadow of Sean O’Casey; “Britain’s most provocative playwright”; “Get dressed. The big fellah’s on his way.”
Bloggers deserve comp tickets too, at least at the Lyric
The Lyric Hammersmith is trying out a new policy of comping in “regular theatre bloggers” to all its main house shows, which is a smart PR move and might also be another baby step towards a new post-print journalism.
It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white…
I chose light-on-dark because it’s more eco-friendly, but if light-on-dark is putting people off visiting, well, then the whole site’s a great big waste of energy. Vote for your favourite, and whichever scheme has the most votes when the poll closes on Wednesday 22 September is the one I’ll go with from now on.
