O! Let me not be mad
One of the hardest things I now have to deal with is My Loved One’s delusions – yet another thing which people...
One of the hardest things I now have to deal with is My Loved One’s delusions – yet another thing which people...
I adapted surprisingly quickly to saying firmly “My husband has Alzheimer’s” to anyone who needs to know – and that’s most people...
Thick black flaps Ragged, jagged, tear about my head Wrenching me apart. I am blinded, deafened and made speechless By the biting,...
John Steinbeck’s heart-wrenching novella Of Mice and Men (1937) must, in recent years, have become one of the most widely read stories...
When I interviewed Emma Troubridge, ROH’s Head of Scenic Art, recently, she told me that this Swan Lake is the biggest show she has...
I first encountered La Traviata when I was about nine. My father, who wasn’t actually a great classical music man, saw it at Royal...
What a strange piece Cosi fan tutte is. In a way it covers the same ground as A Midsummer Night’s Dream – sexual licence and the...
The last couple of blogs have been a bit gloomy. One loyal reader told me that I reduced him to tears last...