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Innocence is not the condition of childhood- rather it is inability to control the heart or stop it from being overwhelmed. This blog is an attempt to prepare myself to see a revival of Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ at The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh on Wednesday 29th October at 2.30 p.m.

October 28, 2025

Innocence is not the condition of childhood- rather it is inability to control the heart or stop it from being overwhelmed. This truth is embedded in the reflexive nature of Chekhov’s great play The Sea-Gull. In Act IV of The Sea-Gull, we hear of the stage in a country estate’s garden that in Act I … More Innocence is not the condition of childhood- rather it is inability to control the heart or stop it from being overwhelmed. This blog is an attempt to prepare myself to see a revival of Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ at The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh on Wednesday 29th October at 2.30 p.m.

Children, even the ‘child inside’, are the object, and sometimes the victim, of theories not based on finding ways of effectively finding out about them from them. Isn’t it time we changed all that?

November 1, 2023

What does it mean to be a kid at heart? You always have to start with terminology in these questions and the most glaring term here is ‘kid’. For, of the many stereotypes Western society (and perhaps more globally now with the primacy of Western values on social media and the long reach of the … More Children, even the ‘child inside’, are the object, and sometimes the victim, of theories not based on finding ways of effectively finding out about them from them. Isn’t it time we changed all that?