The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
Jonathan Cape
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
The first I heard of Thomas Lynch was an essay in The London Review of Books entitled Embalming Father. A friend passed it on to me- on an A3 photocopy. Then he found more, and before long I had a file of Lynch works; wise, lugubrious essays written by a poet who also happened to be a funeral director. Essays, among other things, …
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The Dragon’s Trilogy
Theatre Repere de Quebec
Directed by Robert Lepage
Design and Couture : Jean-Francais and Gilles Dube
Music: Robert Caux
Thebarton Theatre .
March 1988.
Every now and then a production appears which is so imaginative that it makes everything else look like radio with mime. Such a play is Theatre Repere of Quebec’s The Dragon’s Trilogy, a Canadian work which was presented in the last week of the Adelaide Festival and inexplicably has been …
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Arlo Guthrie
Norwood Concert Hall
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
You can get anything you want- at Alice’s Restaurant. Just walk right in. It’s around the back, just half a mile from the railway track. When I first read, in1967, in Sing Out, the folkie equivalent of Burke’s Peerage, that Arlo Guthrie, the son of the legendary Woody Guthrie, had just created a sensation at the Newport Folk Festival with a twenty minute song called Alice’s Restaurant, I …
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