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Running like I Never Saw
An unsettling tale that builds to a crescendo to reveal an unexpected ending. Continue Reading Running like I Never Saw
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Cerulean
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic? Continue Reading Cerulean
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Chasing Sakura: 05. Ceremony
The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
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From Dust and Needles – A Memoir
Excerpts from a memoir
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Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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This Will Be the Last Time
An addiction to a debauched act brings the narrator to a decisive brink Continue Reading This Will Be the Last Time
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Immersive Forays Into Klimt, Schiele and Hundertwasser
The experience is not unlike standing at Times Square at night, but the honks of the city are replaced by a classical music track, and fewer people mull around gaping ...
Up North
A mishap on a snowy day evokes a variety of emotions that tug at your heartstrings Continue Reading Up North
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Kites and Crows
That day, a love affair did not begin. A man and a woman did (not) meet on a train.
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At the Fringe III: Alien visitations and misogynoir
In our final Fringe round-up, Isabelle Dupuy singles out three very different productions that stood out for her in Edinburgh – all of which are transferring to London theatres over ...
At the Fringe II: Eternal youth and male anger
After another jampacked Edinburgh Fringe comes to a close, it’s time to look back at the shows that truly impressed. Felicity Hughes picks her highlights in the second of our ...
Poetry Review: Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls and Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
At the Fringe I: Hip-hop circus and anti-Brexit monologues
Isabelle Dupuy brings us the first of three roundups, carefully selecting a handful of must-see shows from the 966 on offer at the Fringe this year. Continue Reading ...
Out of the Blue
A man sees the map of his beloved’s body on a hospital screen after an accident, and contemplates their possible estrangement Continue Reading Out of the Blue
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Destruction and dependency: Spiral at Park Theatre
It centres on their lives literally spiraling into destruction and dependency in the aftermath of the disappearance: Tom on an escort who looks like his daughter, Gill on alcohol and ...
Everybody Loves Flowers
The apocalypse always lies ahead. Though it’s past coming in the mythical future, often it feels we’ve arrived, even if we’re always approaching. Continue Reading Everybody Loves Flowers
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The Darkness
A youth is terrified by the dwindling flame in the midst of a forest. (By one of our youngest contributors, middle school student Tommy Bollinger) Continue Reading The ...
Rhythm, rapture and revolution: Carmen La Cubana at Sadler’s Wells
Keeping true to the “joyous and noisy” spirit of the people he found when visiting Cuba, Renshaw adds to Bizet’s arias the vibrant and effervescent rhythms of mambo, salsa, rumba ...
Poetry Quintet
You think I want to be here?
Listen, I was young like you once, too. Continue Reading Poetry Quintet
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The Crossing
“The Crossing”, Rajeev Chakrabarti takes us through the journey of a Syrian refugee’s desperate flight from war, seeking a new home.
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