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...Enron is rich with metaphor, with highly crafted extended monologues, and flights of a creative imagination that portrays ‘tame’ company lawyers as puppets and aggressive commodity dealers as forms of...
...spell it. It’s hard to imagine a non-fiction commission that could be both so reassuringly constrained and so inspiringly open-ended. Poetry commissions sometimes come with an additional twist: unlike a...
...libretto Good Angel, Bad Angel, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Markheim’, had reached the fiddly back-and-forth-to-the-composer stage. Having worked with composer Lyell Cresswell on other operas since then,...
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...the journey home. Yet audiences appreciate the compromises, complex implications, and difficult choices redolent of a mature theatre that speaks to the predicaments of individuals and nations. Like Shakespeare. Like...
...have a typewriter. He wrote all his books in longhand. Then presumably he sent it to a typist. Computers are not compulsory. Some people say that they stop the flow...
...case. An X-Men comic has never had the same approach to character as a serious novel. It’s more comparable to a soap opera. The comics offered the soap opera rewards...
...competition, where you come up with the lyrics there and then in what’s known as a freestyle. It would usually be a knockout format, culminating in a final one-on-one battle....
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