In some of the posts I have been writing about time travel. In thinking about the aesthetic used to represent the seventies and in reviewing Doctor Who. This new version of Star Trek is not only about the future, it attempts to recreate the sixties. Women wear short dresses and men have rather questionable haircuts.…
Read more Star Trek (13th May 2009)
On the cover of the programme for current RSC production of The Winter’s Tale , Greg Hicks (Leontes) stands in the middle of a winter landscape and glances down at an ‘old master’ painting depicting an idyllic classical landscape. The programme image suggests the pastoral world as an alternative to the world that Leontes inhabits.…
Read more The Winter's Tale and As You Like It (RSC 7th, 8th and 9th May 2009)