John Foster / 12 Sep 2025
Convulsions of the Body Politic
Charlie Kirk and the Molecularisation of Violence
The killing of Charlie Kirk is a punctuation mark to a sentence we have been reading for centuries.(...)
theatre
Henrietta Foster / 12 Nov 2024
Family Life is Hell
The Wild Duck, Directed by Alan Lucien Øyen
Sometimes, one goes to the theatre and sees a perfect production, determined never to see that play again because nothing could equal it.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 16 Sep 2024
Istanbul Drama Diary
A Week in Turkish Theatre, Part I
I went to Turkey to attend Istanbul’s TheatreIST Showcase the day after I learned my ninety-year-old mother was probably dying.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 23 Nov 2023
Learning From Pristina
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 24-29 October, Part I
I worked in the former Yugoslavia as a journalist during the civil war in the 1990s.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 26 Oct 2023
Kutno After the Holocaust
The Sholem Asch Festival
The stoney-faced immigration officer at Warsaw's Chopin Airport asked me what I was doing in Poland - because, of course, in a post-Brexit world, I am a citizen of a third country inside the EU and have to justify my presence there.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 21 Sep 2023
The End of Privacy
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s superb 2006 film The Lives of Others looks back at the final years of East Germany.(...)