Over the past five years I have worked hard to turn my face to the light and to not venture into the darkness.
Category Archives: Social Comment
Bloody Amazing!
The unknown country of the future currently feels very disorientating.
Flaming June
My only certainty is uncertainty as we all continue to try to make sense of the strangeness of the times we find ourselves in.
Pisagua
It is arguably not widely known that Thatcher regarded Pinochet of Chile as a good friend and ally.
Spectacle and Surveillance
It doesn’t make any material difference to theatre X where I live or what my date of birth happens to be.
Free Association
The idea of free association has been revelatory in terms of embracing the principle that one is wholly free to associate with whoever one likes and for that association to have no constraints on it. The nature of being is that we change and grow and being locked into relationships when they cease to be meaningful is a corrosive experience that inhibits growth for both parties. The biggest learning of this past year has been to recognise and be honest about when it is time to leave.
The Handmaid’s Tale, Critical Debate and Adaptation
Literary adaptation is a problematic art form and is very much a hot topic at present with the runaway success of Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (THT). Taut, politically astute and imbued with dread the adaptation does not adhere strictly to the text and yet is paradoxically faithful to it in terms of capturing the nuances of Atwood’s cautionary tale.
A Coalition of Dignity
Each and every person walking on the planet today has a right to understand their being, the very nature of their existence and what life means for them. Every human being is a wonder and a source of exciting possibility and potential.
The Unpredictable Consequences of Change
This week on Radio 3 programming is centred around Martin Luther and The Reformation, obviously focusing on the change to music that resulted from radical thinking. Sometimes listening to Radio 3 is like being at university, such is the wealth and breadth of knowledge that is conveyed alongside the most sublime music.
Josie Moon 