“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” – this catch phrase from Hamlet means that something is wrong in the situation. I say something was wrong with me if I didn’t…
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I fell in love with ballet this February. I had seen ballet performances live and on screen before. Classical ballet, I mean. Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Don Quixote. Gorgeous, exquisite dancing. I liked…
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“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball “To see what is right and…
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There are stories that look forward, and there are stories that look backward. The older I get, the more often the latter type seems to find me. Last year I…
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The publishers of the first complete works of Shakespeare claimed that theirs was the definite and final edition, absolutely true to the original, in contrast to the previous books that…
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A glass-walled room is on the stage, with a small desk and some cardboard boxes around it. The background is a huge screen showing a harbour and the Statue of…
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Can you imagine Hamlet being a woman? Or a female James Bond for that matter? It may not come to that, but the current trend of swapping originally male characters…
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For the past couple of months, my daughters and I have been living in the fantasy world created by Philip Pullman. Every evening we make ourselves comfortable on our cosy…
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The choice of book was pure chance. I’ve never read any novels by Stephen King and I’ve never taken any interest in the horror genre. What I was looking for,…
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There’s nothing like diving into a novel and finding yourself in a new world where you’re free to choose your part. You may wander through the events as an observer…