He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks. ...
Pedro Almodovar’s latest offering, his “most political film yet”, is a gaudy, farcical satire on modern Spain — but does it sound much cleverer than it actually is? Bella Whittington ...
Of all the irritations of the cinema, other people are the worst. A modern cinema audience may chatter, eat, obscure the view, throw litter, snore and confidently make pronouncements on ...
For an abject lesson in how to stage a classic farce, you could do a lot worse than the National Theatre’s current production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Magistrate. It ...
A thing is funny when, in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening, it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution. George Orwell said, “If ...
Whenever we meet someone new, we ask two stock questions in order to identify them: 1. What’s your name? 2. What do you do? If you ever meet me, particularly after ...
Clementine Wade is a comedian. Over the next few weeks, in line with our upcoming “Humour” issue, she will be sharing with Litro readers the trials and tribulations of producing, ...
If you Google ‘anti slam’ you get a bunch of information about a pretentious-sounding poetry movement which took place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan a few years ago. ...