Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Metro, June 2022 Every so often a young writer appears out of nowhere to recast the literary landscape. Leila Mottley is surely that novelist, a 20 year-old American who started her tale of injustice and […]
Ben East
In brief: The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois; Impossible; Jan Ullrich – reviews
A lyrical, witty novel of the US south, a great Italian writer’s mountain detective story, and the history of a controversial cycling champion The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers4th Estate, £9.99, […]
A Film About Studio Electrophonique
Some written down thoughts expanding on what I said on Front Row this week Sheffield songwriter James Leesley records under the moniker Studio Electrophonique – named after a little known, makeshift studio in a suburban […]
Talking Rock Paper Scissors on BBC Radio 4 Front Row
Critic Ben East and academic Catherine Love review Rock, Paper, Scissors, a trilogy of plays written by Chris Bush to mark the 50th anniversary of Sheffield Theatres and A Film About Studio Electrophonique, a documentary […]
Rock Paper Scissors at Sheffield Crucible/Lyceum/Studio
Metro, June 22 It’s easy to marvel at the technical feat of staging three inter-related plays around the same Sheffield square at the same time, actors moving from one venue to another as their scene […]