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Sweeney Todd, ENO, 1 April 2015

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Pelican Finn by Gesi Shilling. Robin Rice Gallery, 22 April - 31 May.

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You look out the window at a Christmas party and you see... Oxford in all its quiet dramatic splendour. The Oxford Gargoyles, Magdalen College MCR, 29 November 2014

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Orlando, O'Reilly Keble Oxford, 22 November 2014

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His Dark Materials, Keble O'Reilly Theatre Oxford, 14 November 2014

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It’s later than you think. But it’s never too late.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Stop thinking about saving your fragile face. Tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp. We will not blame you if your words go down in flames and nothing is left but the raw-scald. We will not blame you if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the red places where blood might flow. We will not blame you because we know you can never do it properly: once and for all. Passion is never enough. Talent is never enough. Skill is never enough. But try. For our sake and yours. So. Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, so blessed with occasional blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

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Halloween at the office.

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Halloween at Wharf Mews

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All the trust between them, like all the happiness he'd ever known (like the killing of Fred Conlon—like everything), had been an accident. [...] He thought she was omniscient and all she was was cold.

Philip Roth, American Pastoral

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King Lear, Bodleian Old Schools Quadrangle, Oxford

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Skylight @ Wyndham Theatre, 23 July 2014

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