Posted by RDN under At the theatre / Uncategorized on 26 July 2010. No comments.
We paid £50-odd for our two tickets, and added to it nearly £9 to buy the script by Howard Brenton. We left at half-time, and would willingly have paid a little more than£25 to be out of the place. The £9 was so I could reassure myself that there wasn’t some second act bombshell which made this dire piece worth watching. More »
Posted by RDN under Uncategorized on 20 June 2010. One comment.
It’s not often a good ploy to whinge, and this isn’t exactly a moan. Well, only a bit of one. I want to stand up for my Life On a Modern Planet (1995) and Rich Is Beautiful (2005) as works of “rational optimism”. More »
Posted by RDN under Uncategorized on 29 August 2009. One comment.
I’m due on the BBC’s The Big Questions show in the morning. One of the subjects is protest and in particular the Climate Camp. If you save the planet, can you break the law? More »
Posted by RDN under Uncategorized on 30 May 2009. No comments.
Mike Poulton’s latest excursion into adapting Friedrich Schiller provides my first into seeing any of the great German’s work. It was a lot more swashbuckling (schlossbuckling, one might say) than I expected. More »
Posted by RDN under Uncategorized on 12 February 2009. No comments.
The Galapagos Islands are under threat from mass tourism and climate change, says David Shukman, reporting from them for the BBC’s Today Programme this morning. More »
