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What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions are daily tortured Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance In keeping its humanity repressed And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
The times are always ripe, it would seem, for an incisive and satirical commentary on the thinly-veiled charlatanry of religious organisations, be they modern, backwards, cult-ish or some unholier-than-unholy combination of the three. I suppose this is why, as every
The much-anticipated follow-up to The Hayloft Project’s Spring Awakening, which was widely and correctly considered one of last year’s best productions, Simon Stone’s Chekhov Re-Cut: Platonov not only meets the expectations one might have had for it but thoroughly exceeds
With its oblique but unrelenting psychological violence, politically charged nihilism and incisive visual forms – the images in this film, like the knife of its title, will cut you if you get too close – Roman Polanski’s Nóz w wodzie (Knife in
Neither of the short politically-minded plays that comprise Welcome Stranger’s This Is Good Advice is as thematically challenging as it might like to think it is. There is a certain predictability to the angry satire with which Caryl Churchill’s This
Creative writing courses—those ostensible hothouses of creative ferment whose methods, nay, whose very existence has been so hotly debated in these pages and elsewhere—often appear to those of us on the outside as the breeding ground for several subspecies of
An international film festival is kind of like an extended news bulletin – a dispatch wired back to us from the frontlines of the cinema. I am loath to call it a window on the world, which, to me, reeks
Anyone who has ever spent an extended period of time in a television news studio—either on the floor or in the control room—will know, and have come to secretly love, the musical qualities of its internal rhythms. Directions are relayed,