lisa gee

The costume designer for Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust interviewed

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“In theatre you have your dress rehearsal and then previews to work things through. In opera you don’t. You do your dress rehearsal and then it’s press night.”

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Win all 6 Orange Prize For Fiction 2011 shortlisted books – now closed

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To be in with a chance to win all 6 Books on The Orange Prize For Fiction 2011 short list send in a review of any one of them to editor@beatmagazine.co.uk by May 18th

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Stepping Into Kate Mosse’s Shoes

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I wasn’t perfect, but, as one audience member tweeted, “Lisa Gee may not be K Mosse but holding her own”. That’s good enough, isn’t it?

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The Drama Of Being Heard And Not Seen

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If you want to write a play with oral sex happening right by listeners’ ears, pitch it to Radio 3

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Listen, You Are Going To Be Eaten Alive – Papa Sangre Reviewed

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Some players find all this being killed genuinely horrific. Others – me included – meet their repeatedly grisly ends with fits of reaper-like giggles.

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The Piano Exam – fear spelt out in black and white

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By the end of what should have been scales and arpeggios I was shaking like a washing machine on spin cycle.

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The 14/4 Literary Dinner – Photo Story of the event

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“Simply put – it was great fun. Nicely organised and lovely food.”

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Shhhh, It’s A Postcard Size Secret

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The joy of the RCA Secret Sale is as much in the queuing as in the buying. So this year, I resolved to queue longer and better.

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Not so fancy dress…

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I was Boudicca. Note the warlike expression in my eyes. The proud, erect figure commanding the respect of men. The way I’m fiddling with my cardboard breastplates as if uncertain where the things they are supposed to be protecting might be.

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Falling in love with dead men

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It’s the huge, intelligent heart beating through his politics. He always found the time to tell his son Fermin – who grew up to be an accomplished artist – a bedtime story. His feminism. His firm principled life-long stand against all forms of oppression.

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