Keeping the romance alive
Keeping the romance alive Review Ruby Brunton’s late parents Alan Brunton and Sally Rodwell founded New Zealand’s least ordinary theatre company, Red Mole. Now based in Mexico City, she reviews Martin Edmond’s memoir about his time with the group. It’s easy to romanticise the past, especially when the past you’re remembering is light-years from the current moment. As I read Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days 1974-1980, an account of a young writer seduced away from his academic career by a travelling theatre troupe promising adventure and freedom, I too dream of street performance...