The wonderful Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, north-west London, has a long history of social theatre – it has previously put on abridged reconstructions of the Hutton Inquiry and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, to name just two. A long-awaited dramatisation of the Saville Inquiry begins in April, and The Observer reports that the team behind it hope to offer ‘a cooler, more objective eye’ than others have managed.
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »