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Gordon Parsons
nazi nightmares
Books / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin

titus
Theatre review / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

GORDON PARSONS meditates on the appetite of contemporary audiences for the obscene cruelty of Shakespeare’s Roman nightmare

Pier Paolo Pasolini as Chaucer in his film of The Canterbury
Books / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
GORDON PARSONS recommends an ideal introduction to the writer who was first to give the English a literary language
Books / 6 August 2024
6 August 2024
GORDON PARSONS welcomes a graphic biography of George Sand, the most popular French novelist in 19th-century Britain
The cast of School for Scandal
Theatre Review / 10 July 2024
10 July 2024
GORDON PARSONS relishes a fast moving production of Sheridan’s comic masterpiece
ELOQUENT SILENCES: The company in English by Sanaz Toossi
Theatre review / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
GORDON PARSONS relishes a play that reveals how language carries much more than simple communication
Frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Joha
Books / 3 September 2023
3 September 2023
GORDON PARSONS appreciates a very necessary exploration of the benefit of knowing more than one language
KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? Alison Peebles as the Porter
Theatre Review / 31 August 2023
31 August 2023
GORDON PARSONS witnesses a production committed to great fun but signifying nothing 
Joanne Howarth as Mrs Hargreaves in Falkland Sound
Theatre Review / 24 August 2023
24 August 2023
GORDON PARSONS is underwhelmed by the inflation of a petty war into the undeserved status of epic
Cat White (Helen), Conor Glean (Cloten), Marcia Lecky (Dorot
Theatre Review / 5 May 2023
5 May 2023
GORDON PARSONS wonders at a near perfect production of Shakespeare’s eloquent fairytale
Illustration: Barbara Stok
Graphic Novel / 14 February 2023
14 February 2023
GORDON PARSONS enjoys the tale of a self-emancipating woman told with deceptive simplicity
(L to R) Matthew Trevannion as Brabantio/Lodovico, (on table
Culture / 7 December 2022
7 December 2022