David Cottis

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Maggie May at the Finborough Theatre

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--> (This review originally appeared in Wales Arts Review) If you believe the programme note for this 1964 musical, curre...
Tuesday, 5 June 2018

King Lear (BBC, 2018)

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(This review has also appeared, in slightly different from, on the Wales Arts Review .) Anthony Hopkins must be one of the few people i...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

Explore the Mundane! - the Boring Conference 2018

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(This blogpost also appears on the Wales Arts Review ) In his 1998 book The Mezzanine (‘novel’ isn’t really the right word), Nicholson Ba...
Sunday, 31 December 2017

West End Vignette

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So... yesterday afternoon, I'm in a West End theatre, waiting for the show to start (this is going to get more interesting, I promise) a...
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Sunday, 12 November 2017

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‘FLIPPIN’ ‘ECK, TUCKER’ – When Is It Appropriate To Swear in Class? (A conference paper given as part of my PGCHE earlier this year.) ...
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Richard III (1995)

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 (The following, in a slightly shorter form, was originally written as a programme note for a screening of the film at Chapter Arts Centre,...
Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Theatre of Blood (1973) - Notes

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(The following, in a slighter shorter form, was written as a programme note for a screening of the film at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on 1...
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David Cottis
I'm a theatre director/writer, occasional academic and snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. In fact, I wanted to call this blog 'Considered Trifles', but someone else had already got it...
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