Bea Bowles-Bray

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March 9, 2017

Voices from Pinterland

BEA BOWLES-BRAY uncovers the origins and legacy of playwright Harold Pinter. You would struggle to find anybody better suited to play the voice of Harold..

December 13, 2016

Over The Rainbow

BEA BOWLES-BRAY explores how fear drives separatism in Kajsa Norman’s Bridge Over Blood River. ‘We shall build the society in which all South Africans, both..

December 12, 2016

Literature Interview: Kajsa Norman

Watch Literature Editor Bea Bowles-Bray in conversation with investigative journalist Kajsa Norman. CategoriesBea Bowles-Bray Literature Nick Mastrini Our Journal Savage Broadcast

October 25, 2016

Seductive Hate

Bea Bowles-Bray looks into the need for compassion in You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris. On Friday 13th November 2015, three heavily armed gunmen..

October 12, 2016

Rage Against the Dying of the Light

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews August at the Milton Court Theatre. The poet Yvan Goll wrote that ‘decline is also a form of voluptuousness’; that there is..

April 19, 2016

Who’s listening in the din?

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews ‘Boy’ at the Almeida Theatre In the world premiere of Leo Butler’s Boy at the Almeida Theatre, our city is the central..

April 11, 2016

The white person who wrote the lines

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews ‘Made Visible’ at The Yard Theatre If you go down to the yard today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Amid the..

April 11, 2016

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews Go, make you ready at the Silk Street Theatre 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and who..

March 17, 2016

Don’t look away – this involves you

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews Firebird at Trafalgar Studios. Descend into the bowels of Trafalgar Studios and enter one of London’s most intimate theatres, Studio 2. You might..

February 13, 2016

Politics and the English Language – Take Three

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews Mountain Language, One for the Road, and The New World Order at Milton Court Studio. A stone’s throw from The Gherkin, that..

January 24, 2016

Messing about on the river

BEA BOWLES-BRAY reviews ‘Herons’ at The Lyric. Wet-weather warnings are being issued for the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith as Simon Stephens’ ‘Herons’ returns to London..