This was fascinating. Obviously, this is, as the title suggests, about how Greg Doran and Tony Sher put on a production of Titus Andronicus in the new South Africa in 1994, but it is about so much more, too. The authors jump from topic to topic but instead of feeling disjointed, the jumping around...
Tasks for Pancha Ganapati: Post about your 5 favourite books this year and why you appreciated them so much. Tasks for Festivus: [...] --OR-- Perform the Airing of Grievances: name 5 books you’ve read this year that have disappointed you - tell us in tongue-lashing detail why and how they failed t...
“Sartre said that there’s a God-shaped hole in all of us. Greg fills his with Shakespeare; the other day he said, laughing, ‘I’m not the director of a company, I’m the priest of a religion!’ and me? I have Falstaff inside me now – I can say it confidently at last – and that great, greedy, glorious b...
bookshelves: spring-2015, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, art-forms, radio-4, published-2015, arch, epistolatory-diary-blog, bellybutton-mining, bloat Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 05 to 08, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ss...