The little white attic

1/ Perhaps I sound like a fangirl but one of the things I’ve noticed, rereading Anna Karenina , is that Tolstoy is not as preachy and didact...

1/ I have been rereading Anna Karenina but not written a word, because of writer’s block.  8 years since I first read the novel, 8 years si...

This is the third Othello production I’ve seen. See my reviews of the Stratford Festival one from 2019 and the Trevor Nunn one from 1990 ....

The translation is by Una Ellis-Fermor.  1/ At the centre of the play is the marriage between Jørgen Tesman and Hedda (née Gabler). Jørgen i...

1/ In many ways, The Wild Duck is more complex than Ghosts . Ghosts has 5 characters: Mrs Alving, her son Oswald, Manders (the sanctimoni...

So that I don’t get shouted for having lived in Norway and not knowing Ibsen, I picked up Ghosts , translated by R. Farquharson Sharp. I had...

Hello there. I haven’t been blogging lately because I wasn’t in the mood, having an excruciating toothache for over a week (wisdom teeth). T...

Before talking about the play, I must mention some characters:  - Tamburlaine and Zenocrate have 3 sons: Calyphas, Amyras, Celebinus. Caly...

Tamburlaine is a play in 2 parts by Christopher Marlowe, loosely based on the life of Central Asian emperor Timur (Timur the Lame/ Tamerlan...