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SHADOWLAND
 
The artist states that her work, “deals with what is un-seen. Although I operate primarily within the terms of a landscape image, my work concerns aspects of social and personal description as well as the the transience of things. My images are in a sense sets for a potential drama, a scene of anticipation. As [...]

This latest collection from Elaine Feinstein exudes a strangely plaintive sense of calm, perhaps because the author largely eschews melodrama, self pity and regret, therefore avoiding many of the pitfalls less skilfull or experienced poets might stumble into. There is a precision to these poems, manifesting itself in an equilibrium of emotion and intellect.
 
Taking the [...]

Three Sisters, as with so many works of the Russian literary canon, is so interminably long and inwardly orientated that it’s difficult not to feel that Chekhov’s intention in writing the play was to create some kind of elaborate, theatre based practical joke. 
 
The Royal Exchange’s new production, employing Michael Frayn’s excellent translation, always had on [...]