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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Book Review: no sex in Donna Tartt's coming of age novel about a boy's lies, deceit and art world crimes - but plenty on his teenage drug taking

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Book Review: no sex in Donna Tartt’s coming of age novel about a boy’s lies, deceit and art world crimes – but plenty on his teenage drug taking

A still from the 2019 movie version of the book directed by John Crowley with Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt Can a woman write a fictional biography about a teenage boy? Well, yes and no. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch hits some of the right notes such as youthful dishonesty, amoral behaviour, deceitfulness and lies plus a fondness for alcohol and drugs in Theodore…

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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Review: The Odyssey gets the Living Spit treatment – and this time it’s Odysseus' wife Penelope who takes centre stage in a brilliant musical comic re-imagining of the Ancient Greek saga

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Review: The Odyssey gets the Living Spit treatment – and this time it’s Odysseus’ wife Penelope who takes centre stage in a brilliant musical comic re-imagining of the Ancient Greek saga

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Review: The Odyssey. Salisbury Arts Centre

Knob jokes,  comedy props and sensational singing make Living Spit’s version of Odysseus’ chronically badly navigated return from Troy a joy to experience.

Homer’s Odyssey composed some 3,000 years ago of more than 12,000 lines of poetry is enjoyably reduced down to earthy Anglo Saxon phrases in…

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Cheddar Reservoir: recent photographs of the magical scene at dawn in July as the waters greet the new day under the shadow of the Mendip Hills

Cheddar Reservoir: recent photographs of the magical scene at dawn in July as the waters greet the new day under the shadow of the Mendip Hills

Summer dawns on Somerset’s large strawberry shaped reservoir between Axbridge and Cheddar are often glorious affairs. Golden sunrises at around 5am are a particular feast as the 1930s reservoir acts as a mirror to the sky. Here a few images of the last few days in July 2019.

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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: How it all went wrong for the Labour Party in John O'Farrell's reflections of the last 20 years of British politics (with wit, wisdom and a few political blind spots)

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: How it all went wrong for the Labour Party in John O’Farrell’s reflections of the last 20 years of British politics (with wit, wisdom and a few political blind spots)

Things Can Only Get Worse?, by John O’Farrell

No wonder John O’Farrell found it so hard to like Jeremy Corbyn in his book Things Can Only Get Worse?, because unlike his chums Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Corbyn is a real socialist.

O’Farrell’s light weight left wing credentials are exposed by the way he so easily accepted the offer to become the Labour party candidate in the Eastleigh by…

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Theatre Review: Crimes on the Nile - hyper fast who-dunnit spoof that is almost too fast at times

Theatre Review: Crimes on the Nile – hyper fast who-dunnit spoof that is almost too fast at times

The highly enjoyable comedy who-dunnit spoof takes us to Egypt and murder on a boat

Crimes on the Nile. Tacchi Morris, Taunton

New Old Friends have created a new comedy genre of a hyper fast moving send up of the period whodunit with their improvised style and joke laced script.

The movement and choreography by Gary Sefton is excellent and the quartet of actors’ performances are…

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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: Illustration of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE – PREVIEW: A universal story of a misfit duckling on a journey of self discovery by Travelling Light at the Tobacco Factory this festive season Originally published by Hans Christian Anderson in 1843 the story of the Ugly Duckling is considered to be the work of the Danish author known for collecting and writing folk and fairy stories.

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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Surviving World War Two in St Malo All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Dealing with the shattered lives of those caught up in the Second World War Anthony Doerr’s