Category: Features – Archive

September 26, 2024 / Features - Archive

When cellist Karen Hall began accompanying two clowns in their performances, she initially struggled to escape the relative stiffness of her classical training, and share the same playful zone. Then she started taking clown classes, herself. “They were life changing,” she says. “‘Clown’ is such a safe space: you get…

August 31, 2024 / Features - Archive

“I have put my genius into my life and only my talent into my works,” Oscar Wilde fibbed, having liberally sprinkled that genius over the likes of Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest. WB Yeats called him “the greatest talker of all time”, and between his works, letters and…

August 16, 2024 / Features - Archive

We have decided to resurrect Oscar Wilde one last time before gently sliding him back into his suitably ostentatious Parisian grave, and moving on to an ambitious new project. “I have put my genius into my life and only my talent into my works,” Oscar fibbed, having liberally sprinkled his…