Yay I found Kenneth Tynan's complete review of Waiting For Godot, The Observer, 7 August 1995, on Google Books:A special virtue attaches to plays which remind the drama of how much it can do without and still exist. By all the known criteria, Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' is a dramatic vacuum. Pity the critic who seeks a chink in its ( Read more... )

According to IMDb, Ken Russell's Whore was released in the USA under the title "If You're Afraid to Say It... Just See It".

Ken Tynan reviews Waiting For Godot in 1955:By all the known criteria, Mr Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a dramatic vacuum. It has no plot, no climax, no denouement; no beginning, no middle and no end. Unavoidably, it ( Read more... )

It was pretty much dark at 10am this morning. I love Scotland in winter. Wind and rain. Sky the colour of slate. Rain the colour of rain. Also on the subject of winter in Scotland, I'd like to salute Livingston's Almondvale Shopping Centre which decided that December was a good time to dig up half its car parks. Stops those pesky Christmas ( Read more... )

I've booked tickets for Doug Stanhope tonight (since I don't like comedy, someone whose act consists in being rude and shocking would be good) and Terry Saunders' Pulp Boy tomorrow at the Fringe. Culture, of sorts ( Read more... )

Don't get Mike Leigh to write your obituary:David Halliwell was a loner. He lived alone and, typically, it seems he died alone. Indeed, his eponymous loner, Little Malcolm Scrawdyke, was in many ways a self-portrait, although David always denied this. Having met at Rada and become close friends, he and I founded Dramagraph with Philip Martin in ( Read more... )