Curtain is lifted on Russia
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
A quality piece of television has been Jonathan Dimbleby’s five-part journey through Russia.
So far, the journey has been incredibly interesting and absorbing, and this final instalment was no different.
Most of the episode revolved around a visit to Irkutsk, a city that’s been gripped with Aids and prostitution since the fall of communism.
Thankfully, Dimbleby also visited [...]
WhatsOn Why it’s hard to let go of Elvis
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 13, 2008
Death and remembrance. It’s an issue that Toronto playwright Franca Miraglia explores in her latest work, Last Days of Graceland, opening tomorrow at Theatre Passe Muraille.The play itself is me thinking through the question of, ‘How do we say goodbye?’ said Miraglia of her ninth work.I’m always fascinated at how funerals do play that role [...]