Ian Patterson

Oct 21, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Ian Patterson

Jilly Cooper makes an all too fleeting appearance in the TV adaption of her novel ‘Rivals’. It’s always a shock when imagined characters from novels are given a kind of reality by TV actors. Everybody has their own idea of Mr Darcy or Leopold Bloom, Mrs Dalloway or Emma Bovary, and most incarnations will upset somebody. It does seem perverse, though, to change as much about the characters’ appearance as Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best novel, Rivals, has done.

Sep 2, 2024 | nuvomagazine.com | Evan Pavka |Ian Patterson

Toronto’s Studio of Contemporary Architecture is Creating Socially Responsible Spaces Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste are architects of inclusion.

Apr 22, 2023 | theatre-news.com | Ian Patterson

The opening night of Irish National Opera’s ten-date Irish tour of Jules Massenet’s Werther makes a strong case that less is sometimes more. At a glance, there is not much meat on the bones of the synopsis, based on Goethe’s novel The Sorrows Of Young Werther (1774). Man meets woman already promised to another. Doomed courtship ensues. Jilted suitor takes his life. But as INO’s daring adaptation in Letterkenny’s An Grianán theatre underlines, the devil is in the detail.