The very first theatrical device, a spirit body arching over Miranda and voicing her terror of the storm and pity for the shipwrecked, as she tossed in sleep - down there, on the wet grass at our ...

On the stage, a paeon of praise for the joys of hunting from the heroes and heroines of country house land. Being a 'gentleman': essential. Being 'of England': enough to make the heart burst with ...

In 95 minutes, mainly in stark, elegant or playful black and white animation, Persepolis tells the appalling story of female and other oppression in the vast country of Iran, through the damaged life ...