OBITUARY: Robert Holman 1952 to 2021 by Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor writes about playwright Robert Holman who died this week “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small”. It is hard to imagine a dramatist with a slighter…
International Touring Cast 2017-18 (Photo: Brinkoff Mogenburg)
REVIEW: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Apollo Theatre (2013)
Touring venues MAY 2022 Norwich, Dartford and Wycombe
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was a hit novel for Mark Haddon with its analysis of the adventures of a 15 year old boy who has a disorder in the autism spectrum, akin to Asperger's. Haddon says the novel is not a manual on autism but a book about otherness and how society at large reacts to what is different.
Esh Alladi (Photo by Helen Maybanks)
REVIEW: Out West, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)
Out West is a collection of three one actor plays by three renowned playwrights, linked by each play illustrating differing aspects of racism and alluding to the area where the Lyric Theatre is today. One is about a mixed race marriage, one about a black woman's fight for self esteem and one about a law student from overseas arriving in Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria.