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Tag Archives: Cynicism

The End of the Fringe: My Robot Heart.

August 27, 2012

The last that we saw of the performance poet Molly Naylor was in 2010, when she appeared at the Pleasance …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Love and Understanding.

August 16, 2012

I have not seen one of Joe Penhall’s plays in the flesh before and so it was a great privilege …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Right Honourable Member.

August 10, 2012

There are a host of productions knocking about this year’s Fringe which concern themselves with how ghastly the political class …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Haverfordwest.

August 25, 2011

Tychy occasionally tutors Highers students, they are invariably from rich families, and it is often unnerving to be exposed to …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Happiness.

August 24, 2011

Murray Watts’ play “Happiness,” which is presently established at Hawke and Hunter, reaches for a pair of comfy old stereotypes …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Ed Reardon, A Writer’s Burden.

August 16, 2011

Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas) is a grandly established old carthorse from the Radio 4 comedy stables, his show trotting through …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool.

August 6, 2011

It is the first Friday night of the Fringe and the streets are sweltering in a high fever. There is …

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Book Reviews: Southern Daughter and Gone with the Wind.

May 26, 2009

If Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) took a decade to write, then Darden Asbury Pyron – a professor …

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Insightful Cynicism: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

May 12, 2009

CYNIC, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the …

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