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Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from

2 gents
Theatre Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience

winters tale
Theatre review / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

4.48
Theatre review / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today

constant
Theatre review / 4 July 2025
4 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by an unsubtle production of this comedy of upper middle class infidelity

HAMLET
Theatre review / 16 June 2025
16 June 2025

GORDON PARSONS joins a standing ovation for a brilliant production that fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead's music

londres
Books / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025

GORDON PARSONS recommends a gripping account of flawed justice in the case of Pinochet and the Nazi fugitive Walther Rauff

wasteland
Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative

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