Jeeves: My Dream Man
This morning I had trouble waking up. As usually happens when I am lying groggily in bed, I longed for the …
Category Archives: Reviews: Books, Theater, Film
Fearful Symmetry: Mark O’Rowe’s “Our Few And Evil Days” (2014)
Everyone delights in representation. We find the proof of this in everyday experience, for those very things which are distressing …
Conor McPherson’s “St. Nicholas”
Few of us exercise the memory much, but actors do. They think nothing of memorizing page after page of a script; …
The Goo (2014)
What is “The Goo”? ‘The Goo is… that feelin’ ya get when your [sic] out and your havin’ a laugh …
Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus (2007)
In October, we will travel to Dublin to see Mark O’Rowe’s new play Our Few and Evil Days, which is being …
The Hollow Crown: Richard II (2012)
Shakespeare’s Richard II is not often produced, so I was intrigued to find it included in the BBC series The …
Six Riffs on John Banville’s The Sea
After his wife’s death, a grief-stricken widower withdraws to the seaside village where he once spent his holidays as a …
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
A just-married Irishwoman slips out of the church in Galway after signing the register. Tearing the veil from her head, she hands her …
Peter Gunn
Most everyone has heard the famous theme song by Henry Mancini. But how many people have seen Peter Gunn, which …
The Driftless Area
Great book titles are like miniature poems. They grab you, intrigue you, make you ask questions, all while encapsulating a complex story and …
Linnet Moss 