Zoe Williams's Saturday sketchTransportIt’s not quite a hoverboard, but it’s close enough. If only the pesky police hadn’t banned it, we could all be living happily in the future
It was 21 October 2015, in Back to the Future II, that Marty arrived in the future, dressed in smart grey booties and using a hoverboard. “Roads,” said Doc, “where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” This is technically true of the real hoverboard, in the real 2015, but we do – if we’re going to hover convincingly – need a magnetised floor. Read More...
Poster poemsPoetryPoster poems: March'March many-weathers' can be both a spring and a winter month. Will your poems look back on the cold or ahead to the sun?And so here we are: March many-weathers is upon us. For the Romans this was the month of Mars, god of war, when the start of the Mediterranean spring made it possible for the imperial armies to get back to fighting after the winter break. Read More...
TheatreReviewDonmar Warehouse, LondonKenneth Tynan once called this "a bad great play"; and I think I know what he meant. Camus here tackles power, tyranny and freedom and even invokes Shakespeare; yet the result feels more like a philosophical debate than a drama rooted in reality.
Camus presents his hero at a point of crisis after the death of his sister and lover, Drusilla. Granted the absolute power of a Roman emperor, Caligula decides to give a new century " Read More...