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Happy Days, Young Vic Theatre

Hardly a day goes by without some blessing in disguise. In an interview conducted in 1994, Samuel Beckett claimed that the inspiration for his 1960 play Happy Days was trying to imagine the ‘most dreadful’ thing that could happen to someone…. Read More ›

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Old Vic Tunnels, 6th January 2013

Almost two years ago to the day I went to Wilton’s Music Hall to watch Fiona Shaw perform T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. On that occasion I was struck not only by Shaw’s performance but also by the perfect harmony between text and space, both of which were also achieved in the Young Vic Theatre’s production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, performed by Shaw and dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon in the Old Vic Tunnels.