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Archive for April, 2015

Review added of Rules for Living by Sam Holcroft, at the National Theatre.  We’ve seen six plays in London in a week, as last year, and Rules for Living is easily the best production of an intensive week. Easily the best “post-Shakespeare” play of the six too.

With Stephen Mangan and Miles Jupp.

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Review added of The Globe 2015 production of Romeo & Juliet. This is a stripped down touring production.

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Review of Carmen Disruption by Simon Stephens at the Almeida Theatre, Islington added. Hugely theatrical, brilliantly done … but avant garde, or pretentious?

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The Globe 2015 season is under way with The Merchant of Venice (LINKED). A major production featuring Jonathan Pryce as Shylock.

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Ah, Wilderness! review

Review added of Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill at the Young Vic Theatre, London. Classic American play as done in a sandpit. Excellent cast, shame about the play.

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Review of American Buffalo by David Mamet, with John Goodman, Damian Lewis and Tom Sturridge added.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs by Dart Travis is the first e-book fiction publication from Three Vee Limited, until now our ELT only imprint. It’s set in the long-gone glory days of ELT teaching in 1972 and is a humorous novel set in a large language school in Bournemouth (with some detailed and funny classroom sequences too).

Cover illustration is by Ed McLachlan.

See link for more information on the story: Dart Travis “Foreign Affairs”

For background: see ABOUT DART TRAVIS

The ebook is NOW AVAILABLE ON THE KINDLE STORE (linked)

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How Just William Got Me Into Grammar School

Article on “How Just William Got Me Into Grammar School” (linked) Richmal Crompton’s Just William series plus Eleven Plus Tests, Selective Education, Vocabulary, Verbal Reasoning, all for kids … all under “ELT Articles.”

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Don Covay

My article on the late Don Covay is now up on the Toppermost website. See link.

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Communication Skills: The second debate 2015

More on the second 2015 debate and communication skills. The five opposition leaders debate.

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