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This is a blog on the National Theatre Live revision of Noël Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’. If follows a blog preparatory to seeing the play from July 21, 2024 in stevendouglasblog (use this link to read it in full) Enzo Cilenti playing Joe, Joanna in Coward’s script, the morning after the night before Last night I saw the re-streaming … More This is a blog on the National Theatre Live revision of Noël Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’.

Should queer readers be interested in the queer coding of the recent past: The case of anticipating watching Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. The blog written after seeing this production is available now here: Next Tuesday, I will be going to see the re-streaming of a once live performance of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter with the … More Should queer readers be interested in the queer coding of the recent past: The case of anticipating watching Noël Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’.

Early in Anita Desai’s Rosarita, a daughter remembers a family jointly (or so it seems) pondering, during a specific dinner where her mother broke the codes that hold together middle-class families with servants, and other revelatory incidents, that mother’s ‘unsuitability for a wife’. In a generalised point of view within Desai’s elegant prose, told largely … More This blog looks for what is truly revolutionary in Anita Desai’s (2024) ‘Rosarita’.

Seeing in person Tate Modern’s retrospective Modern’s Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider on July 21st at  15.30, with our dear friend Catherine. Geoff, Me and Catherine in the sun outside the BFI Café, photograph by Catherine. I have already written a preparatory blog (on June 19th, 2024) relating to my expectations of this … More Seeing in person Tate Modern’s retrospective ‘Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider’ on July 21st at 15.30.

Seeing in person the British Museum’s reconstruction of the elder Michelangelo in Michelangelo: The last decades on July 21st at 12.30 with our dear friend Catherine. Geoff, Me and Catherine in the sun outside the BFI Café, photograph by Catherine. Geoff and I met our dear friend Catherine at the café pf the British Film … More Seeing in person the British Museum’s reconstruction of the elder Michelangelo in ‘Michelangelo: The last decades’ on July 21st at 12.30 with our dear friend Catherine.