The Seafarer - a review

Would you like a piece of toast, Ivan?
I don’t think I’m there quite yet, Sharky.
Connor McPherson’s new play, The Seafarer, is touring the UK. After its run at the Cottesloe Theatre, the National Theatre production was at The Lowry in Manchester and is now playing at Newcastle Theatre Royal, where we caught up [...]



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 [...]



JM Coetzee in York

We were at a reading by JM Coetzee at the University this afternoon.
Coetzee’s early life was in South Africa. In the early sixties he lived in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. Later in that decade he was in Texas studying for [...]






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