You must understand, I had lived a life of unspeakable shame. Nothing I tell you will make sense unless you understand this. Otherwise how could you believe, for instance, that my own reflection could climb out of a pool of glacial meltwater and greet me? I say she greeted me, but all she really did…
Features
Trick or Treat in the city
Spooky season has just passed and Norwich was ready to celebrate Halloween with a line-up of terrifying things to do around the city. Spooky City returned to Chapelfield Gardens on Thursday 31st October, where it was remodelled into ‘Halloween Town’, holding a number of free activities for everyone to take part in. The theme this…
Creative Writing
Summer in September
Across from you, I hide in plain sight, sipping on a fix Of iced coffee and neurosis. Watching your words spout Off into sentences which resolve into open air then collect Into piles at my feet. Little tapes of thought reeling out In tandem, a tangle, a tender blur of noise I cannot grasp Nor…
Travel
Exploring Halloween across the globe
It’s that time of year again. It’s time for people to knock on your door trick or treating, carve pumpkins, and most notably, the more recent tradition of going to a party, probably dressed as a zombie, in order to drink a little too much and be a literal zombie the next morning. Halloween as…
Arts
Rambert’s Ghost Dances at Norwich Theatre Royal: “beautiful, fast paced, and very clever”
Ghost Dances is the voice of the dead. Made by Christopher Bruce for Rambert in 1981 to bring to life the passion, happiness and fight of those murdered by Augusto Pinochet; inspired by his meeting with dancer Joan Jara and the death of her husband, Victor, after Pinochet’s 1973 coup; this story is a tender…