Aristocrats Sarah Gibbs 11/08/2018 Early in Lyndsey Turner’s production of Brian Friel’s Aristocrats, jaded brother-in-law Eamon (Emmet Kirwan) describes Ballybeg Hall, a run-down Irish...
Utility Sarah Gibbs 06/06/2018 George Orwell begins his essay "My Country Right or Left" by stating, "Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present." H...
The Grönholm Method Sarah Gibbs 24/05/2018 In high school, a friend of mine had a job interview during which she called her potential supervisor “Dad.” Then panic-giggled when the interviewers ...
Absolute Hell Sarah Gibbs 26/04/2018 Late in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s National Theatre production of Rodney Ackland’s Absolute Hell, a guest at the La Vie en Rose club in Soho waves a gun above...
Ricardo Panela in Conversation with Sarah Gibbs Sarah Gibbs 27/03/2018 An emerging artist and two-time recipient of the International Opera Awards Foundation bursary, Ricardo Panela (ricardopanela.com) is a Portuguese bar...
The Great Wave Sarah Gibbs 23/03/2018 Indhu Rubasingham’s production of Francis Turnly’s The Great Wave washes ashore in London at an interesting moment. In a global political climate in w...
Version 2.0 Sarah Gibbs 23/02/2018 Keats wrote that the poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; he or she inhabits many lives but is without native identity. To build a p...
Long Day’s Journey into Night Sarah Gibbs 08/02/2018 I tend to give marathoners a bit of leeway. It’s difficult to begrudge runners a few wobbles in a race that would kill most of us, especially when it’...
