Care to lead by example
Modern day living leaves little quality time for family and neighbourhood relationships, let alone time to reflect on what really matters. Rather than make choices, many people feel obliged to meet al ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Latest Round-Up of Books – two theatrical biographies
JOAN LITTLEWOOD Dreams and Realities by Peter Rankin (Oberon £14.99) If you wanted theatre to present a slice-of-life in the 1950s and 1960s there was one place to go and that was Theatre Royal, Strat ...
Old age is not for sissies
Robert Tanitch reviews Visitors at Bush Theatre, London W12 Barney Norris’s Visitors observes the physical and mental decline of an elderly couple who have spent a long and happy marriage on a farm in ...
Mixing the generations for a perfect recipe
In the UK we seem to think that the generations should be segregated with specialist retirement villages and starter homes for young people. Now, it seems, the Germans have a thing or two to teach us ...