I’d like to introduce y’all to my namesake, Mr Robert Wilks, born in or around 1665. According to Wikipedia:
He was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its hey day of the 1710’s.
It also appears that he was denounced by Alexander Pope, and [...]
An old Malaysian pen-pal of mine, Leon Lim, has created an online portfolio called Knowing You, which can only be described as a collection of photographs that Leon Lim himself has taken over the years, in which he demonstrates how he remembers the individuals he has met through his childhood, school, at college, from his [...]
Rachel and I went to see an opera this evening entitled Io Passion at the Almeida Theatre in Islington. It was errm… rather bizarre, but interesting nonetheless. Here is a synopsis:
Opera or Operetta: On the site of the forgotten Mysteries of Lerna, the compulsive relationship between a man and a woman reawakens the [...]
Saw “Katya Kabanova” last night, an opera composed by Jan?cek. The Welsh National Opera performed a production of it last night at the New Theatre in Cardiff. You can read a full synopsis here. Basically, miserable in her marriage, harried by her mother-in-law, and suffocated by small town life in provincial Russia, Katya [...]
Well well. I had the pleasure of going to my first BSL-terped art talk this afternoon. Yes. Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper.
Bringing together approximately sixty drawings and paintings on paper from the artist?s personal archive, the exhibition spans his career from the 1950s to the present. Many of the [...]
