Month: August 2014
-
99 Sonnets
Yesterday, in the deep dark pit of dissertation isolation, I stumbled upon something online that made my laugh out loud (not LOL) for the first time in an age. Check out http://popsonnet.tumblr.com/ if you like both sonnets and guilty pleasure pop songs (personal favourite is their take on #SELFIE by Chainsmokers). Inspired by that and…
-
‘Throw Off Your Sex’ – Ben Power’s Modern Medea via Lady Macbeth
I must first apologise for the gap between this blog and the last. Since then, I’ve been working on my dissertation and performed in a production of Measure For Measure with the Shakespeare Institute Players, as one half of a re-imagined Provost made up of two twin brothers, thus christened ‘Brovost’ by myself and my…