Trigger Warnings: rape, sexual assault, family, friendship and relationship drama. UK Paperback Cover Mulholland High School, where pretty teenage girls meet pretty teenage boys, and you can always expect drama when it’s the setting for one of the most popular reality shows. The ‘it girl” of the show, Chole Winterheaven, is the mean teen asContinueContinue reading “Mulholland High: The Reality in Reality TV”
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Behind the Curtain of Glenda Young’s ‘Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel’
Triggering content to do with relationships, grief, talk of homelessness and drugs, plus murder. Introducing Carmen Delray. Star of TV’s ‘The Singing Nurse’ and as Wendy ‘Songbird’ Wren; Delray will appear as the leading lady in Chester Ford’s “Midnight with Maude” coming soon to the Scarborough’s Modernist Theatre. “I have no wish to dig herContinueContinue reading “Behind the Curtain of Glenda Young’s ‘Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel’”
Mark Ravenhill’s The Cane: “spine-chilling work of Fiction that could easily be reality.”
“The ban on corporal punishment came into force in 1986 in British state schools (private schools took a while longer: until 1998 in England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in Northern Ireland)” (Walter, 2016). So if you’re a teacher with a history of corporal punishment, it makes sense that you would keep itContinueContinue reading “Mark Ravenhill’s The Cane: “spine-chilling work of Fiction that could easily be reality.””
“Almost Fiction” A National Theatre, London The Corn is Green Review
A semi-autobiographical play, so almost fiction. “Emlyn Williams’ semi-autobiographical play, is given a bold new staging by director Dominic Cooke […] in its first London revival for 35 years” (National Theatre, 2022). Honestly, picking up the play script began when realising Nicola Walker was in the production at the National Theatre, London. Knowing nothing, I’mContinueContinue reading ““Almost Fiction” A National Theatre, London The Corn is Green Review”
Reviewing Daisy Pulls It Off by Denise Deegan
https://youtu.be/SKQeHg8QBHs #Triggerwarnings: Lose of a loved one, aquaphobia and bullying. “I’m proud to be once again a girl of Grangewood, of the Upper Fourth.” Daisy wins a scholarship to one of the best school’s in England. The only chance she hope’s to make things different for her family. Daisy will discover that she’ll make something differentContinueContinue reading “Reviewing Daisy Pulls It Off by Denise Deegan”