Proving that ghost stories aren’t just for Christmas, the BBC deviated from the broadcasting mantra that spine-chilling shows are best served up on a cold winter’s night by including The Living and the Dead in the summer schedule for 2016.Nathan Appleby, played by Colin Morgan.Set in 1894, the series centres around troubled psychologist, Nathan Appleby, … Continue reading Is The Living and the Dead "Thomas Hardy with Ghosts"?
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Review: Iqbal Khan’s Macbeth
I feel as if I should preface this review/blog with a disclaimer: I am neither a Shakespearean expert (at least no more than anyone with an undergraduate degree in English Literature is) nor a ‘purist’. Shakespeares’s Globe’s Wonder season, Emma Rice’s first as the theatre’s artisitc director, has been the topic of much conversation, both … Continue reading Review: Iqbal Khan’s Macbeth
The Vampire Rabbit
Gargoyles are familiar fixtures on British buildings, glaring down from churches and cathedrals around the country. While gargoyles and grotesque figures have existed on religious buildings for centuries, they became more common within Gothic architecture. Some of them take the form of animals, and one of the earliest recorded animal gargoyles was a classical Greek … Continue reading The Vampire Rabbit
Steven Guscott: ‘In an ideal world it shouldn’t matter, but we don’t live in an ideal world’
Steven Guscott, author of The Diary of V. Frankenstein, draws from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to create an alternate history novel, with equality at its core.Interview date: 26th May 2016, 11am.Conducted by Daniel Southward via Skype.It's a somewhat quiet day in Sheffield's Jessop West building as I sit down to interview Steven Guscott, author of The Diary … Continue reading Steven Guscott: ‘In an ideal world it shouldn’t matter, but we don’t live in an ideal world’
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to… Grave Robbing?
George IVPortrait by Sir Thomas LawrenceWhilst researching my book, Life in the Georgian Court, I spent a lot of time in the rather wild company of George IV, aka the Prince Regent or, earlier still, the Prince of Wales.In this midst of the usual parties, heartbreak and largesse, the court of the rip-roaring regent took … Continue reading A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to… Grave Robbing?
"Gaslight": Performance and Power
From Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of "Rebecca" (1941), to Max Ophül’s "Caught" (1948), and Fritz Lang’s homage to Bluebeard in "The Secret Behind the Door "(1947), there is no shortage of tyrannical husbands and persecuted wives in the cinema of the Second World War and post-war period. What critics have dubbed the ‘paranoid woman’s film’ does … Continue reading "Gaslight": Performance and Power
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