My latest column for BitchBuzz is another theatre review: “Men buy their slaves, but women buy their masters.” – Isabella Shakespeare gets all the love when it comes to Elizabethan theatre, but that’s because people tend to forget that the stage was the television of its time, cheap and plentiful, aiming only to get bums…
Month: June 2010
Review: After the Dance + NT backstage tour
I love the NT! What could it be? Their wide variety of programming? Plays old and new? More female directors in this single building than on the whole of Broadway? So many reasons! I found yet another reason when I took their backstage tour. Yes, I am so enamoured of theatre life that it was…
Publications: "Touched by an Angel" & 21st Century Gothic
I just received a copy of the cover of the new collection 21st Century Gothic which features my essay on Graham Joyce’s [AKA William Heaney’s] Memoirs of a Master Forger. It was one of those projects that comes out of the blue and then — typical for me anyway — I forget all about it…
Review: The Real Thing
Wednesday I caught The Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, as I mentioned in a recent post. Most of you know how I am enamoured of Stoppard’s work and I had heard good things about this production. The bar was set high by the most recent production of his Arcadia, which was…
Interviewed at UnBound / BitchBuzz
The wonderful Adele over at the fabulous book review (and more) blog, UnBound has interviewed me and wormed many secrets out of me 🙂 and that’s me laughing at the noodle restaurant the week before. It was such a pleasure getting to know in real life someone I had got to know over the ‘net….
Publication: Lachrymae Draconis
I have a new publication out in the latest issue of Realms. It’s a kind of medieval mystery with a dragon called “Lachrymae Draconis” which you’ll quickly figure out is Latin for “dragon tears” — an entirely fake commodity that young Colburga has been dealing in with the help of the dragon she’s got hidden…
Magus: The Alan Moore Conference (Day Two)
Here’s another one of Adele’s photos: just out of shot to Alan’s left is me holding Melinda’s glass. One of these days, I’m going to remember to take a picture with them. But don’t they look sweet together? More on thee two later. I left London on the same train as I had the day…
Magus: The Alan Moore Conference (Day One)
Here’s a lovely photo of me and Marc Singer snapped by the wonderful Adele, who already has her write-up of the Magus conference up over at her book blog, UnBound, and has pictures up as well. I was looking forward to this conference despite not quite having my paper done before I headed off to…