According to Christopher Booker’s 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, there are seven of them:
1. Tragedy. This usually involves a hero with a fatal flaw meeting a tragic end. Macbeth or Madame Bovary are obvious candidates. Others might be The Picture of Dorian Gray, Julius Caesar and Anna Karenina. [...]
How to approach performance art; or perhaps not . . . The British comedian as a young hopeful.
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Their gig at Thorganby Village Hall last night was a sell out event.
Miranda Sykes was confident on the back of her new CD, Bliss, and gave us great late-night vocals, accompanying herself on double bass.
She doesn’t have a soaring voice, but the way she uses it is intriguing, exploring traditional jazz and cabaret forms [...]
Although originally a British-Iranian film and tv actor, Omid Djalili is now recognised as a stand-up comedian. And it was with his new show, No Agenda, that he appeared at the Grand Opera House in York, last night.
He’s intelligent, infectiously and refreshingly funny and brings with him an outsider’s view of the contemporary condition. His [...]
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