Test Portsmouth Point

by Lottie Allen Peace is a beautiful concept - appealing in every way. But once reality obscures your path, normality is lost in an ocean of grey. The intruder remained unseen, unknown and unheard - nothing more than a shadow. Moving with easy grace, taking calculated steps; the epitome of perfection. The importance of this job was a heavy burden to carry, and knowing that one wrong step could expose him was his greatest fear. His presence was an omen - a bad one. When a soft voice called out, he was startled and stumbled clumsily. A moment of weakness. The noise seemed to ring in his ears. He almost didn’t notice a flashlight wavering and shining in his direction as he threw himself aside, chastising his rash behaviour and pitching up against the wall. Minutes passed and the flashlight edged back, warily. Undiscovered, he composed himself and paused to adjust his hood. Each clouded breath was just visible in front of him, trembling imperceptibly. He wondered faintly, if he’d im...

Theatre Review: Quartermaine’s Terms

by Laura Burden 'Quartermaine's Terms' by Simon Gray; directed by Richard Eyre and produced by Michael Codron; performed at Wyndham's Theatre. Rowan Atkinson and Conleth Hill in Quartermaine's Terms (image: Independent) Looking at the list of West End productions this Easter break, the dominant feeling was one of being spoilt for choice. Simon Stephen’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a must-see (at some point) and Peter and Alice and The Audience sound compelling. The Book of Mormon would at least be a talking point. Many of the plays currently onstage hearken back to the past – recent political history, the classics of children’s fiction or the comparatively innocent days of the ‘cacophonous’ gramophones and eccentric maids in Lindsay Posner’s new version of Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy . The play I eventually settled on, despite having been written in 1981, also recalls a previous era and in fact ...

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