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An Inspector shouts, an audience giggles………….
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 29, 2009
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Now feels like a particularly good time to revisit J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a classic piece of polemical theatre that held me spellbound me when I first saw it a very long time ago. It was inevitably less thrilling (for me) this time round, because it’s a play that relies on mystery style [...]
Paperback reviews of One of Us
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 28, 2009
Read the Guardian review, published today, here: and the Independent’s review of the book published last month.
Richard and Judy Book Club
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 7, 2009
‘One of Us’ has been selected by Richard and Judy as their book choice for February. Their reviews plus those of Amanda Ross, Joanne Frogatt and Sam West can be read in the Online Edition of the Daily Mail.
Freedom Writers
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 1, 2009
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…………..And while we are on the subject of love, hope and change in unlikely places, please watch Freedom Writers starring Hilary Swank as an idealistic young teacher, apparently foolish enough to wear a string of pearls in her new job as an English teacher in a tough LA public school. The film gathers pace slowly [...]
Milk – Sean Penn
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 1, 2009
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My respect for Sean Penn has grown over the years; the deal was probably sealed when I saw him in 21 Grammes with Naomi Watts. But if you’d told me even a year ago that this brooding charismatic actor was going to take the part of the impish but extraordinarily tenacious gay activist of San [...]
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