EVERY EPISODE of the period drama series Poirot is beautifully crafted. Every element, every piece of furniture, every prop, every location, are perfectly set in the 1930s world that Hercule Poirot inhabited….

…BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE. You’ll have heard this time-worn phrase repeated time and again. But do you really know what you like? How can you tell? Some works…

VISITING ART GALLERIES can be a rewarding experience. It can also be exhausting, as you trudge around room after room taking everything in until you’re overwhelmed by visual stimulation. My…

THERE ARE MANY WALK-ON PARTS in Shakespeare’s plays, especially those produced with a budget large enough to pay for the actors. Watching a production of Julius Caesar, I was distracted by…

SOME YEARS AGO I was taken to a production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall. The performers managed a laudable interpretation of the fight scene in which…