readingplays
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“Those feelings are in their twenties now”: The Comeuppance by Branden Jacob-Jenkins
Warning: Here be spoilers. I like to write about all of a play and not avoid mentioning the ending. That’s the best bit. I love a play that leaves me with an abiding image – a moment, a gesture – that encapsulates the connective moment of meaning between writer, actor and audience. At the end… Continue reading
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This Week’s Reads: Boys by Ella Hickson; Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
Boys by Ella Hickson (2012) Achieving an authentic and believable depiction of young students being young is a difficult task. As the sex, drugs and bin bags full of rubbish built up in the squalid shared kitchen setting I was prepared to have my inner Daily Mail reader harrumph and eye roll while muttering about… Continue reading
The Read Through 