Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant today
Throughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka portrays the gruelling consequences of overwork on desperate people.
Posted on: 4 June 2024
Four Letter Words
Thanks to funding from the University of Liverpool’s Early Career Researchers and Returners’ Fund, the Centre for New and International Writing and the Department of English, I was able to hold a 2-day workshop for my new play, Four Letter Words, which culminated in a rehearsed reading to an invited audience. The Everyman & Playhouse Theatre kindly provided rehearsal space and New Works Associate, Tommo Fowler, offered his dramaturgical support. I was lucky to work with a brilliant team of collaborators on the workshop: director Millie Foy, actors, Ged McKenna, Katie Erich, Nadia Anim and Alicya Eyo, and BSL interpreter Leanne Morris.
Posted on: 21 May 2024
“We have to be weird and random and non-linear:” Joe Ward Munrow on Creativity, AI, and the Revolutionary Potential of Community
Munrow’s latest play centres around the mythological leader of the Luddite revolution, but its themes are painfully relevant to our digital age
Posted on: 30 April 2024
Poetry in a Time of Crisis - Review
The Allott / Poetry Society Annual Lecture Series has been hosted by many international writers. Previously featured poets include Anne Carson, Valzhyna Mort, C K Williams, Jan Wagner and Terrance Hayes.
Posted on: 31 May 2023
Worth Review – a theatrically thrilling dark comedy:
Set against the cosy backdrop of the Yeung siblings’ family home, what begins as a comedic journey down memory lane soon spirals into a dramatic retelling of the horrors from the past.
Posted on: 25 May 2023
Pavilion Poetry Launch Review: Tuesday 25th April 2023
An audience is captured in the palm of three pairs of hands. One holds monsoon seasons, marigolds and coconuts; the next holds eros, bone scans, and roots; and the other holds starfish, mud and estuaries.....
Posted on: 24 May 2023
Top Girls
As the Everyman Theatre prepared for their current run of Caryl Churchill’s ‘Top Girls’, they welcomed students from the Department of English behind the scenes to learn more about the process of putting on a show.
Posted on: 26 April 2023
The Obscured Roots of Magical Realism
By Mitzi Castle
Posted on: 15 June 2022
Murakami’s Magical Realism: Entering Different Realms
By Mitzi Castle
Posted on: 15 June 2022