All in all, Long Lost Loves (And Grey Suede Gloves) was a fascinating evening of singing and piano. It renewed, as Dowsley said, the “power and the rawness” of cabaret: the incredible talent of her singing, and the virtuosity with which Michael Curtain played the piano deserved the encore and ovation at the end.
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Beatrice, one of the protagonists, tries to resist this novelisation, embodying the revolutionary who lives, eats, and breathes in political ideals; a figure that belongs not in a novel, but in a history textbook.
This play is a powerful and realistic depiction of not just growing up gay but of getting older gay. The haunting sadness of having infinitely more knowledge than you once had- and the constant burning wish that you could go back in time and be a better friend, a better partner, a better confidant.
The gentle beauty of Cinnamon Gardens hides the bitter and mournful experiences of those who live and work within it, who have endured hatred, racism and deep-seated intolerance.
More than a novel, this book touches on the author’s feelings and vulnerability. The reader is invited into her thoughts and emotions, and given the tools for further self-reflection and personal analyses.
From the first two episodes alone, the series commits to its goal of holding a microscope to those who politicise religion, whether that be leaders or those on the periphery.
Games are like time capsules: they present the historical landscape in detail, immersively and creatively, to educate us about the past and present.
The play was an inviting and necessary series of vignettes on the transition from girlhood to womanhood, largely communicated in monologues or dialogues.
The real strength of Screwd! lies in its inversion of the punchline. It empathises with its female characters and has us laughing squarely at the absurdity of male entitlement.
Filmed across three decades, The World Is Family encapsulates Patwardhan’s quintessential style: spontaneous, organic and unwaveringly analytical. Narrating the early lives and last days of his parents, Pathwardhan presents a refreshingly intimate insight into the feelings of struggle, nostalgia and hope which have coloured key moments in India’s history of independence, Partition and protest.
