The little white attic

Films  In February, I watched Past Lives , The Holdovers , Maestro , and American Fiction .  It probably says something about me—I know no...

Facebook has just reminded me that 5 years ago, my experimental short Footfalls won the Royal Television Society Student Award – Short Form...

As Blogger would make you sign in to verify your age, I have decided to publish the list on Google Docs.  Enjoy! 

I’m currently reading If This Is a Man (known in the US as Survival in Auschwitz ), a memoir by Jewish Italian chemist/writer Primo Levi.  ...

At its most basic, my measure of a King Lear production or film adaptation is rather simple: does it make me cry at Lear’s reunion at Cordel...

Aren’t you amazed at the range of characters in Shakespeare? I mean not just a range in backgrounds, identities, personalities, viewpoints, ...

Before commenting on these productions, let’s talk a bit about the plays.  I love Henry IV, Part 1 . I also love Henry IV, Part 2 . It seems...

Michael Caine as Horatio and Christopher Plummer as Hamlet There are different ways of approaching and interpreting the character of Hamlet....

1/ The greatest novel I’ve read this year is easily The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. Sometimes I look at the suffering around the wor...

I have just finished watching Inside No.9 —it is brilliant! It’s a British black comedy series, written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pember...