MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
The Cunning Little Vixen, Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff
Excellent production points up the politics of Leos Janacek's family favourite
Beautifully realised: Aoife Miskelly (left) as Vixen Sharp Ears
[Richard Hubert Smith] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
FROM the moment David Pountney’s Welsh National Opera production of The Cunning Little Vixen opens, we know we are in for a treat.
The setting is a bucolic scene in a drowsy forest, where the insects play games on a sleeping badger as a cricket and a caterpillar give a concert, while lithe dancers flit around the stage as iridescent insects.
The idyll is joined by Aoife Miskelly’s beautifully realised sassy young fox cub Vixen Sharp Ears, who is exploring the forest on her own.
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