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.
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is uncomfortably relevant. An intelligent man - a scholar, no less - trades his soul for limitless knowledge and twenty-four years of supremacy. In our world, the Mephistophelean pact isn’t written in blood but coded in algorithms.
If you’ve been anywhere near a Drama teacher’s social media feed the last couple of days, you’ll know it’s not pretty. Instagram stories and Facebook groups are awash with exhausted posts from teachers swapping horror stories of grades torn down by moderation, and wondering why they bother putting in hundreds of unpaid hours if the system’s going to kneecap them and their students anyway.
Theatre is meant to take risks - and a production so joyous and kinetic is a gift. It’s smart, messy, generous, and completely alive. It’s Midsummer. It’s Madness. It’s exactly the kind of anarchic disruption Shakespeare deserves.
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 282 min read
Theresa, Abu Dhabi
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