-
Nov 27, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Charles DICKENS |Jack Thorne |Peter Augustine Lawler
The other day, sheltering in a tube carriage from London's first unexpectedly biting and wet snow of the season, a colleague disabused me of a popular misconception.
'It's true!' she said. 'Our whole notion of a white Christmas and snowy English winters is based on a few random freakish winters that Dickens spent here.
-
Nov 14, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis |Peter Augustine Lawler
November 14, 2024 How psychological barriers constrain men’s interest in gender-atypical jobs and facilitate occupational segregation Eileen Suh, Evan Apfelbaum & Michael Norton Organization Science, forthcoming Abstract: Scholarship regarding occupational gender segregation has almost exclusively focused on women’s experiences (e.g., as targets of discrimination in masculine domains), yet understanding factors that perpetuate men’s underrepresentation in traditionally feminine occupations is...
-
Oct 21, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Nathan Englander |Peter Augustine Lawler
I can’t help but wonder what the effect would be of showing What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander’s wickedly funny, moving play exploring Jewish identity in Israel, or to some of the other principal players currently involved in the conflict right now. What would say, people in Gaza or the West Bank think? Would they recognize themselves?
-
Oct 14, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Lorraine Hansberry |Peter Augustine Lawler
Whoops! If this website isn't showing properly, it could be that you're using an old browser. For the full American Magazine experience, click here for details on updating your internet browser.
-
Oct 7, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Jez Butterworth |Peter Augustine Lawler
A sumptuous warmth emanates from Emily Bestow's meticulously well designed set. We are presented with the interior of a cabin, wooden floors, walls and ceiling, a split level with a kitchen and an old fashioned refrigerator, a door leading off to a bedroom. To the right, a cool blue light dapples and dances over the night outside the cabin, implying a body of water in the near distance and maybe even the mystery of darkness and the danger of the unknown.
-
Sep 20, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Samuel Beckett |Peter Augustine Lawler
There's always a giddy excitement with a play I know and love. And Beckett's masterpiece really is that. It is the first proper play that I ever saw back in 1995, done by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. I was 16 and the actors pronounced the eponymous and unseen character's name as Godot which is practically embarrassing now and it seemed like so much gibberish to me.
-
Aug 28, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Peter Augustine Lawler
Alison Larkin’s journey is a fascinating one, particularly for expats, especially for long term expats like me who’ve never quite stopped searching for who they are. Which is already funny – although, sadly I stress, philosophically so and not comically so – since she herself is not really an expat herself.
Larkin’s personal story, which is both a foundational part of her play, Grief… A Comedy as well as something that she has mined for material for other shows and earlier books, is compelling.
-
Aug 14, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Peter Augustine Lawler
I’m very appreciative of the fact that you guys have agreed to chat with The American and tell us all about your involvement in The Lehman Trilogy it. Can we start by taking turns talking a bit about yourselves and how you came to be involved in the play?
Howard: I saw the show when it first came to New York, before it went to Broadway. They performed at the Armory in New York, which is a massive stage.
-
Jul 26, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Peter Augustine Lawler
Playwright, journalist and producer Emily Jupp's new play, Wormholes, is premiering at the Omnibus Theatre. Starring Victoria Yeates, of Call The Midwife fame (she's Sister Winifred), it's a timely and poignant look at abusive relationships. Emily made time to talk to us recently about the play, her own background and the relevance that domestic abuse stories still hold for us as a society. You can read our review of Wormholes here.
Emily, I'm really excited to hear all about your play.
-
Jun 6, 2024 | 
theamerican.co.uk | Peter Augustine Lawler
'Those are really the heroes. The entrepreneurs in the small villages in the middle of nowhere, plugging away and doing their research and sourcing great coffee!'
When people think of Ireland, for a host of reasons, they don't think coffee.
Let's try that again.
When people think of high quality coffee, they don't think of Ireland.
But they will do soon based on the evidence on show at this year's London Coffee Festival.
