Deliq.

I've wanted to see Arnold Wesker 's Chicken Soup with Barley for years; that the chance should finally come after a period of immer...

Every birthday I ever had I sat around. Now'sa time for standing. Poppa, I have to tell you – I don't like myself, past, present and...

Note added 9 July 2021: following the discovery that, through all the years I was working with him, Chris Goode was consuming images of chil...

A while back I interviewed Fiona Shaw about playing Mother Courage, for a little something accompanying an essay by Tony Kushner in the Gu...

I'm in the honeymoon phase with the new Wild Beasts album, that exquisite, slightly giddy period of feeling so consumed by a piece of mu...

I've been trying to write this post for over two weeks, but things keep getting in the way: this piece about playing Shylock; the entic...

Note added 9 July 2021: following the discovery that, through all the years I was working with him, Chris Goode was consuming images of chi...

Another of the theatre pieces I've seen in recent weeks that, in its surreptitious way, made me want to get started here was Honest by D...

Thursday was one of those secret gifts of a day when the children are at nursery and I don't have a strict deadline, so I get to look at...

And so, to business, and the primary purpose of this blog; that is, aside from the very important rendering of recipes (lemon/olive oil/rose...