This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016. Millican Dalton was, without doubt, an oddbod. This self-styled ‘Professor of Adventure’ who left his city job to hide away in a cave in Borrowdale was an eccentric who was famous locally and enjoyed greater national fame in his lifetime than he would… Read More Theatre Review: The Professor of Adventure
This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016 This new play based on the bestselling book by James Rebanks and adapted for the stage by Chris Monks, is a bold venture for Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. With puppets and local volunteers taking important roles, big risks were taken with this… Read More Theatre Review: The Shepherd’s Life
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy My rating: 2 of 5 stars This classic novel should subtitled, in my opinion, as “A Tale of Three Bad Men”. It’s not entirely fair to consider a book written nearly 130 years ago from a modernist point of view (or post-modernist if you will). But sometimes a… Read More Book Review: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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