REVIEW: The Swell Mob, Flabbergast Theatre *****
I have bequeathed both my eyeballs to a redhead named Tabitha
[REVIEW] This Is Shakespeare & What Blest Genius
I am very over-excited to have my first Literary Review byline this month, reviewing two brilliant books: Emma Smith’s This Is Shakespeare (calmly revolutionary take on 20 of the plays) and Andrew McConnell Stott’s What Blest Genius? The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare (Blackadder Goes Stratford; blissful). You can read my review here, or – even…
Shakespeare’s Props – out now!
My new book – Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition – is out now in Routledge’s Studies in Shakespeare series! You can buy Shakespeare’s Props here (via Routledge), and in all the usual places (at the time of writing, Blackwell’s seems to have the best price). I hope you’ll see a lot of this book on this…
Identity and atrocity: international theatre since 1945
This post is a quick resource for students attending my lecture series (title above) in HT 2019. Links to all the handouts shared online are available below. Feedback is welcome, either in the comments section to this post or via email (sophie.duncan@ell.ox.ac.uk). The last lecture in the series will take place this Friday (Friday 15…
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Identity and atrocity: international theatre since 1945
This post is to publicise my lecture series this term on Identity and Atrocity in Anglophone theatre since 1945. It’ll be happening on Fridays at 11.15 in Lecture Room K of the English Faculty for Weeks 1–5 of term (18 Jan to 15 Feb), and the outline is below. For more information, leave a comment…
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Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition
Are you a propmaker or do you run/work for a theatre or company with its own prop shop? Do you collect theatre, film, or television props? Actors: which props have you kept/bought/'forgotten to return'?
Advent 18: 5 Steps To A Spooky Christmas
'A Strange Christmas Game' (1865) by J. H. Riddell is a charming story of fun, games, counting thirteen people when only twelve are present - and of a girl with a broken neck.
Advent Day 11: Priest, Cat, Kremlin
Lo! The Advent Calendrist has been derailed by the snow cancelling her evening plans! SEE how she reduces her living room to Santa’s Workshop if-Santa-had-really-specific-views-on-wrapping-paper. MARVEL as she finally exhausts the internet’s supply of tabloid articles on Strictly drancers’ marital breakdowns and the romantic life of Craig Revel-Horwood. REJOICE as she assembles a smorgasbord of…
[REVIEW] Twelfth Night, dir. Simon Godwin, National Theatre
Appropriately for a play that begins with a shipwreck, Simon Godwin’s Twelfth Night at the National Theatre left me with a lingering sinking feeling.
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[REVIEW] Suddenly Last Summer, ETC, Oxford Playhouse
Here is my mini review of Suddenly Last Summer: Mary Higgins should be booked in to play Hecuba twice a term until she graduates. Ideally in a newly-discovered translation by Sylvia Plath. She rises with red hair and eats men like air as the disturbed Catherine in this disorientatingly ambitious version of Williams’s Dead Gay New…
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