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NEWS AT A GLANCE #5

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Of arshins, poods, and workplace happiness. A whole new week’s worth of the news where you aren’t. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged accents, Alan Titchmarsh, Armenia, army, BTS, children, Christmas, doctors, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, employment, health, Italians, measurements, men, Nelson Evening Mail, pens, politics, Queen Mob's Tea House, Richard Dawkins, Robert Browning, Russians, satire, Shakespeare, Sri Lanka, the Irish, the Orient Express, the Scots, train-travel, vending machines, wolves, work | Comments (0)

Portrait of a ‘lady’ – Constance Markievicz, by Sarah Purser

Friday, November 30, 2018

Tonight, the Irish journalist Mary Kenny has a play on at the Irish Cultural Centre. Entitled Dearest Old Darling, it’s based on letters sent between the Dublin feminist, socialist, communist, Sinn Fein MP (elect, but never sitting) Constance Markievicz – née Gore-Booth – and her sister Eva. My great-great-great-aunt, Sarah Purser, portraitist, landscape artist, and […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE #1

Thursday, November 8, 2018

A lad named Rogers, and other true-ish stories. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, animals, assassins, babies, Beethoven, books, Caractacus, China, cricket, crime, Dhingra, Epping, Evelyn Waugh, fireworks, geography, health, heroes, horses, music, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Plutarch, pumpkins, Queen Mob's Tea House, race, Rain Men, Regulus, sailors, satire, shit, Sweden, taxes, the Bible, the Congo, Tom McIlwaine, travel, TV | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, April 23, 2018

. We call our day 24 hours, but it is really 23 hours 56 minutes 5 seconds. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 28 1906 . ‘Facetious’ is the shortest word in the English language including all the vowels in alphabetical order. The English theatre loves the joker. Samuel Beckett notched up 35 runs in first-class cricket. UK funeral directors are […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, anatomy, baking, californium, comedy, cricket, death, education, English, fishing, funeral directors, gun violence, JR Ewing, mackerel, men, money, murder, music, Nelson Evening Mail, republicanism, Ross Brown, Samuel Beckett, singing, the pentatonic scale, the UK, time, torture, Uzbekistan, vowels, weather, work | Comments (0)

Brief lives: Samuel Derrick

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Samuel Derrick (1724-69), was an Irish writer, friend of Dr Johnson, Boswell, and Tobias Smollett, and master of the ceremonies at both Bath and Tunbridge Wells. He published, among other works: The Dramatic Censor, No. 1; Sylla, a dramatic entertainment, from the French of Frederick II of Prussia; A Voyage from the Moon, from the […]

Filed in Non-fictions | Also tagged Bath, Brief lives, Chester, Corke, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dryden, finance, Frederick II, French, James Boswell, Juvenal, Latin, Liverpool, London, Ossian, Poetry, prostitution, Prussia, publishing, Samuel Derrick, Samuel Johnson, the Irish, Tobias Smollett, Tunbridge Wells, writing | Comments (0)

Good show(?)! – Mozart Undone

Monday, February 24, 2014

His circus-like extravaganzas have sliced and diced The Beatles, played fast and loose with Bob Dylan, and spawned successful imitations across the theatre scene in his native Denmark. Now the gleefully wilful director-cum-ringmaster Nikolaj Cederholm brings his trademark ‘theatre concert’ to London’s Barbican, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s temporary residence in the British […]

Filed in feature, interview, Journalism | Also tagged Adrian Edmondson, Beethoven, Betty Nansen Teatret, Blackadder, Bob Dylan, Chekhov, Darwin, Denmark, Dolly Parton, English, German, insanity, Italian, Jens Hellemann, JMW Turner, Lady Gaga, Lloyd Webber, Mandela, Mozart, Mumford & Sons, music, Neill Cardinal Furio, Nikolaj Cederholm, Old Testament, Paganini, Peter Hellemann, Red Hot Chili Peppers, rock, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, war | Comments (0)

The life and times of Sir Jonathan Miller

Sunday, April 1, 2012

BBC2’s Arena on one of the last remaining Renaissance men. — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged BBC, Gilbert & Sullivan, Oliver Sacks, opera, Plato, science, Shakespeare, Sir Jonathan Miller, Sir Laurence Olivier, theartsdesk, TV | Comments (0)

After Miss Julie

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Patrick Marber’s post-war update of Strindberg’s (regular) Miss Julie, reviewed. — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Patrick Marber, Strindberg, theartsdesk, Young Vic | Comments (0)

War Horse: (a tangent to) the real story

Monday, March 5, 2012

Channel Four runs with variation on Michael Morpurgo’s dubious theme – reviewed. — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged film, horses, literature, Michael Morpurgo, Steven Spielberg, theartsdesk, TV, war | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.5

Saturday, March 3, 2012

In which we hear more about Klinghoffer, camp terrorism, vultures, fake boobs, Cape Town, Debussy, The West Wing, and the aftermath of sex with Willie Nelson. — For theartsdesk

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Alan Rickman, Cantona, Debussy, Denzel Washington, ENO, film, hairdressers, Israel, John Adams, Maeterlinck, Mallarmé, opera, Palestine, Ricardo Darin, Ryan Reynolds, South Africa, TV, Vincent Cassel, Willie Nelson, Zach Braff | Comments (0)