Serious Offerings from the Folk Revival: The Wicker Man at Fifty
Two snails writhe over one another, watched by a lord in a kilt reciting lines from Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’. The local sweetshop sells cakes in the shape of naked women. A mother breastfeeds an infant in the ruins of a church—her outstretched palm cradles an egg. An empty rec
Baggage Claim
Our suitcases stutter forward, past packets and tins, slices and loaves. I catch myself in every reflective surface. Wrinkled shirt in the countertop; slick,blotchy profile looming in the cool glass of the cloches; wisps of manic hair creeping in the sunglasses atop so many heads. It is almost a rel
Weather Vein
It’s been weeks since a storm like this— Paper cups are smooth, flammable, and hazardously placed in my hand. I am drunk at a party and the music is too loud. It is creeping up my spine A static hum that rattles the bones of my inner ear, Any second now it’s going […]
The Moment a Character Starts Lying to you: An Interview with the Playwright Mike Bartlett
“What makes playwriting exciting is that it is fiction: follow the character, because, for the most part, no one really cares what happens to you.” Mike Bartlett recently delivered a talk to the Oxford University Drama Society on his career, playwriting and the importance of theatre in the 21st
