I can’t act, sing, dance, paint, direct, or produce, but I enjoy watching and listening to those who can. However I do hold a doctorate in law, and am a published author of both fiction and non-fiction works, an editor, law reporter, book reviewer, avid traveler, cartoonist, sculptor, decorated babysitter and, when I have the time, a barrister. I now have my own website to exhibit my ceramic art- www.suprisingceramics.com. At the core of much of what I do-is writing.
So, what could be better than to combine the enjoyment I get from films, plays, ballet, musicals, art exhibitions and other artistic endeavors, with the enjoyment I get from writing. Ergo – I became a reviewer.
Above : Peter O’Brien and Tom Stokes in AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Pic Jeff Busby
By rights, this is a play [first staged in 1943] that should not succeed! It is a murder/mystery where anyone who wants to can …
Arthur Miller, who wrote this play, once commented that a playwright’s reward “is to know that by one’s invention a mass of strangers has been publicly transfixed.”
If that be so, then he would have been very well-rewarded by the …
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When Hamlet utters the words, ‘The play’s the thing!’, the Bard probably did not have in mind a play in which an attempt is made to perform abridged versions [some extremely abridged] of all of his plays
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This play is an adaptation of a famous 1743 comedy by the Italian playwright, Carlo Goldini, “The Servant of Two Masters”. When such a play is transposed into the 1960s , in Brighton, England, and tributes to “Fawlty …
This is not a Las Vegas extravaganza! It is, however, an exhilarating, often jaw-dropping, dynamic performance by 8 very talented acrobats/gymnasts, wonderful and imaginative choreography, a backdrop curtain out of which the artists emerge and depart like wraiths, a bare …
AKARNAE, written by Lynette Noni and published by Pantera Press, is an engaging book. True it is that it has recognisable elements of the Harry Potter saga, the Narnia chronicle and the X-men franchise, but they fit neatly into the …
Everyone makes fun of politicians. It’s a national pastime, and deservedly so. But to do this really well, and in a sustained manner–that takes talent.
Proof of this is YEAR OF THE ABBOTT, a wickedly funny, political satire playing, as …
Faced with the inevitable comparisons any audience would make with the classic 1962 film in which Gregory Peck so deservedly won the best male actor Academy Award, any playwright, director and actor involved with presenting a production of TO KILL …