View over the top of my book #16
On Friday, BBC Cymru Wales held a writers’ forum in Cardiff to launch this year’s Wales Drama Award. In the past, I’ve tried my hand at writing sketches for the BBC Radio satirical… Continue reading
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Presents and Absence
…..and when I say presents, I mean this lovely bundle of books I got for my birthday on Thursday! I had a fabulous day and was treated to a surprise trip to Cardigan’s… Continue reading
The Most Perfect Place on the Planet to see ‘The Tempest’
Before we discovered the closely guarded secret of the utterly fabulous perfection of Pembrokeshire, I thought we’d end up living somewhere in Cornwall. Both my husband and I (along with everybody else in… Continue reading
How to Traumatise your Children with High Culture: The Prequel
Stuck for what to do with a pair of bickering brats on a wet afternoon in the school holidays, My Mum chanced upon a local Am Dram Society production of Othello in the… Continue reading
We hate it when our friends are successful
I feel sorry for Brutus. OK, so maybe he did conspire against and murder his friend Caesar, paint his arms right up to his elbows in Caesar’s blood, before sashaying into town, his… Continue reading
‘Beware the Ides of March’
As today is the Ides, or the 15th of March – famed as being particularly inauspicious for Julius Caesar, (and he can’t say he wasn’t warned!) – I thought it would be a… Continue reading
Nobody’s Listening.
A few days ago, I caught an interview with Juliette Binoche on Radio 4’s Arts review program, ‘Front Row’. She was discussing her role in the already acclaimed production of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone‘, from… Continue reading
Burn, Baby, Burn, like a Dystopian Inferno!
Reading Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ in 2015 is like checking the timetable of a ship that’s long since sailed. If the seeds of style superceding substance, and being well-liked carrying more… Continue reading