Family Voices

We were in Sheffield last evening to see a reading of Harold Pinter’s Family Voices. The Sheffield Crucible Theatre are celebrating Pinter’s work, and this was just one of several productions around the same theme.
The play was directed by Polly Thomas and Justine Potter and recorded for the BBC. The voices were read by Samuel [...]



Learning to Write V

Art affects life because it teaches us how to see, how to hear, how to feel; because it has the capacity to create for us what we might term norms of feeling.
Within comedy, whatever else we may find, there is always the assertion of invulnerability, we are given permission to laugh by the perception that [...]






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