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“Burning words full of life and truth”: review of my poetry in the Morning Star

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Quasi gal, quasi Byronic. It’s official — I write like the poetry dudes of old. I’m delighted and a bit stunned to read a wonderful review of my poetry collection, Reaching for my Gnu, in today’s Morning Star, written by writer and revolutionary teacher Chris Searle. Chris says of my poetry: “… a strange rendezvous of language, […]

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In the Ai of the beholder: my theatre review of The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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The Arrest of Ai WeiweiHampstead Theatre, London NW3 If martial arts functions by using your opponents’ weight against them, then artist Ai Weiwei must be the Bruce Lee of annoying the hell out of the Chinese government. He’s transformed dissidence into performance art, rendering him embarrassingly effective in resisting official persecution. Howard Brenton’s play The

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The Book of Mormon review: South Park creators’ gentle mayhem in London

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Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever

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David Bowie Is V&A launch party review: music event of the year

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Anna Chen – Saturday, 23 March 2013 The vast lobby of the Victoria and Albert Museum had been turned into the sort of joint where beautiful young men and women press cocktails and bubbly onto you as soon as you walk in. Mini canapés appeared transported on futuristic illuminated platters like something out of the

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

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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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