An occasional blog concerned with the world of English Language and Literature. Featuring insights from examiners and past students as well as encouraging and inspiring everyone to pick up a book and get lost in a new world.
I remember when drama wasn’t something squeezed into an end-of-term production slot or a “practical enrichment” box on the timetable. It was part of English, right there in the Key Stage 3 curriculum, alongside metaphors, Macbeth, and the Year 8 class jumping off the ends of their desks as Icarus tested his wings. (Apologies to the Head whose office was below my classroom.)
The Faction’s The Talented Mr Ripley is currently in Brighton and touring across the UK in the coming weeks. It’s definitely worth an evening of your time - slick, unsettling, and fiendishly clever theatre that lingers long after the lights go up. I’ll be keeping an eye on whatever this company does next.
There’s a particular magic that happens when you sit down in a theatre real, velveteen-seated, actual air-in-the-room theatre - and the lights go down.
Sophie Welsh
Apr 28, 20252 min read
Theresa, Abu Dhabi
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