March, 2013 – Anna Chen

MEDEA at ENO review: misogyny, “Other” & “a devilish disturbance in the cosmic balance”

Leave a Comment / reviews / Anna Chen / 13/03/2013

Anna Chen – Wednesday, 13 March 2013 My review in the Morning Star. The dusky woman outcast mistrusted for her talents is an old, old story that’s still around today. MedeaColiseum, London WC2Tuesday 12 March 2013 by Anna Chen An ENO version of Medea ignores its subversive possibilities as a vision of imperial plunder and […]

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SWP goon squads stalk the net. But ineptly.

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 11/03/2013

Professor Darkside may decry the use of the new-fangled interwebz thingy but that hasn’t stopped SWP goonsquads jumping over their detractors. A couple of them had an inept pop at me last month. Here’s the latest one. (Scroll up to the top.) Hilarious. A mere sample: Further reading More SWP rape accusations: “a dangerous environment

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SWP goon squads stalk the net. But ineptly.

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 11/03/2013

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More SWP rape crisis accusations: “a dangerous environment to be in”

Leave a Comment / Politics, Women / Anna Chen / 09/03/2013

Read Anna Chen’s collection of poetry, Reaching for My Gnu, now an eBook. It’s International Women’s weekend, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are having their special crisis conference tomorrow and more allegations of the crummy way the SWP treats their women members are coming to light. I’m reposting an updated version of my SWP Sex

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DREAMS THAT DIE: misadventures in Hollywood — review

Leave a Comment / reviews / Anna Chen / 03/03/2013

In Dreams That Die, lefty journalist John Wight tells a good yarn very well, which is to be expected from a budding screenwriter who had the nerve to take off for Hollywood Mecca with nothing but a script and a few hundred quid to his name. Charm and a Scottish accent only get you so

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