Bloom-ing marvellous
The title, In Bloom, refers to two fourteen-year-old girls struggling to forge their own identities in Tbilisi, Georgia as the newly independent country’s 1992 civil war is mirrored by the girls’ turb ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews books on Shakespeare, Charles III and Gielgud
SHAKESPEARE IN 100 OBJECTS (Nick Hern Books £19.99). The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has a wonderful and fascinating collection of material related to performances of Shakespeare’s plays: pa ...
Tribute to South Africa’s first black president
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Video Vision Entertainment). 27 years in prison. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew ...
Bernard Shaw said “It was, literally, a hell of a play”
Robert Tanitch reviews The Silver Tassie at National Theatre/Lyttelton Sean O’Casey’s tragic-comedy is one of the great anti-war plays. Its rejection in 1928 by W.B.Yeats, artistic director of the Abb ...