Disjecta Membra

I was terribly sorry to learn of the recent and untimely death of my old teacher Stephen Winkley. He had the bad luck to teach me in every o...

In 1965 the left-wing government of Indonesia was destroyed by a military coup. With the enthusiastic support of Western powers (especial...

Relatively Speaking (1965) was Ayckbourn's first big hit in the West End, played by big names (Richard Briers, Michael Hordern, Celia J...

I'm sorry to be missing the memorial concert for Sarah Morgan at Winchester Guildhall today. Sarah  founded the Winchester Community C...

A couple of weeks ago Drama on 3 broadcast The Boy at the Back , an English translation of a play by Spanish writer Juan Mayorga, a name ...

Spoken-word performance events - poetry slams, hip-hop recitations - are big at the moment, at any rate in the uncloistered urban scene. ...

In the Early Life of Thomas Hardy (1928), there is a note dated 1888 about a builder and plasterer named Thomas Haviland Voss. Amongst his ...