Ivanov is the first play by Chekhov I’ve seen, although I have read some of his short stories. With titles like ‘A Misfortune’ and ‘She Left Him’, it’s fair to say these are not the cheeriest of tales. There is one innocuous sounding story included in my small collection, ‘At the Mill’, but we all […]
I’d never heard of the Cathars before, or the buggers, as Ken called them. This was when Holy Blood, Holy Grail was still a cult book and way before its offspring, the Da Vinci Code, took all things Knight’s Templar into the mainstream. It turned out the Cathars were a medieval movement based on the […]
“The ordinary accounts of this vortex had by no means prepared me for what I saw.” - A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
Truthfully, I was not familiar with any accounts of …some trace of her, but I was still unprepared for this unusual, giddying play. It is inspired by Dostoevsky’s tome The […]
A cricket or locust at the Archipelago
“We had our breakfasts - whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn’t matter, you must have your breakfast.”P. 90 The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins.
It wasn’t exactly breakfast that we ate, it was dinner, but it was a meal and it wasn’t to be missed. Besides, I’m […]
