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Mother Courage and her Children is epic theatre

28.09.09
Mother Courage and her Children is a competent, confident, if ultimately underwhelming reading of one of the trickiest masterpieces of 20th-century theatre... more

It’s normal now to bat for both sides

17.04.09
Perhaps it was Desperate Housewives, that beacon of modern sexual and social mores, that signalled a shift with its recent flirtation with the idea of bipartisan attraction... more

Working doesn’t work in the country

09.04.09
I am in the greengrocer in Dulverton buying rhubarb and bump into Somerset’s literary lion, Alexander Waugh... more

Trudie Styler speaks out to revive the lost art of oratory

03.04.09
The art of oratory is being killed off by computers, according to Trudie Styler... more

Uncut version of controversial Helen Mirren film Caligula to be released

26.08.08
It was banned in the 1970s for its graphic scenes of incest and real sex, but now controversial Roman epic Caligula is set to go on sale in the high street.... more

All change! What the new buzzword really means

01.08.08
From David Cameron to Barack Obama, everyone's using the the new political buzzword. Here a historian asks what it means, and four writers explain how change affects us all ... more

It's a good job writers can take it on the chin

15.04.08
Writers are getting it in the neck - literally, not figuratively. Over the weekend it emerged the Pride and Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies was headbutted and punched while out walking his dog... more

Mind games on the terror trail

11.05.07
Inspired by correspondence between Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, and Gore Vidal, the great, gay American man of letters, Terre Haute's strange, sad tension is compelling.... more

Giving peace a chance

07.12.06
Yoko Ono says that, of all the documentaries that have been made about John Lennon, The U.S. vs John Lennon is the one he would have loved.... more

Terrorist's duel on Death Row

17.08.06
The theatrical sensation of the Festival, Terre Haute deals with that terrifying contemporary creature, the home-grown terrorist. It is enthralling, tense and highly astute.... more

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