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Photo: Jan Woolf. Amiee Lou Wood as Sonya and Toby Jones as Vanya on my MacBook Air.  I watched the recent production of Uncle Vanya on my computer just before the announcement of Tier 5, that is starting to feel like a 5th act in a play.   Or is Vanya a 5 tier play?  There were lots of tears in it, dealing as it does, with everybody’s lack of fulfilment, and Vanya’s love struck niece Sonia, watching the love of her life (Dr Astrov) walk out of the door.  She has to return to her miserable uncle’s side when he learns that the estate he’s given his life to, is to be sold to fund h...

  This is my Christmas card.  An art magazine might write thus: ‘Woolf’s multi-media collage references classic Western midwinter imagery, with the contemporary and oh so topical stylised human figures photographed on her local pavement in Cricklewood.  Placed apart on a Yule Log of yore,  (a chocolate confection) they signify apartness, and the slight, touching lean of the figure on the left shows the emotional need for humans to be together from Solstice to New Year.  A devilish robin (or is she/he a saint?) keeps them apart, but looks meaningfully up. Up at the rescuing star of a ...

Doesn’t it glisten like the gold they spin? And the kidnap of the word, of course. They mugged it, threw it into a cell.   say what they want when it isn’t true – Like Mars Bars are good for you, or that a country has weapons of mass destruction. But when That’s a different American ball game. In pictures, real ones mind, not doctored photos, or hearsay, or cooked up interviews. But And you showed us. They came for you and they are torturing you. Like Saint Sebastian And strip-search you – for what? You have nothing left but what you know,