Rare Accidents

The Inseparables ★★★★☆

A tender and faithful adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s lost novel

Apr 23, 2025 • Rachel Edwards

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March 2025

Eclectic Letters #8 — Rachel Edwards

A Victorian painting of Pompeii, Calvino's Invisible Cities, the works of Stefan Zweig, À Rebours, a Zbigniew Herbert poem, and a charming short film…

Published on Eclectic Letters • Mar 17, 2025

June 2024

Kaleidoscope

Final pieces by students at Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Jun 20, 2024 • Rachel Edwards

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January 2024

The Sonnet Competition (again)

Sonnets on the theme of 'Distance'. The bed is cold again. Penelope, familiar with his ways, walks to the shore.

Jan 26, 2024 • Rachel Edwards

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May 2023

Under Milk Wood ★★★☆☆

A wave of multi-voiced Welshness that washes over the audience like the sea

May 14, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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The Picture of Dorian Gray ★★☆☆☆

This immersive adaptation has none of the seductive sinfulness or blurry homoeroticism of the novel.

May 1, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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April 2023

The Oracle ★★☆☆☆

Amusing one-woman show starring the semi-divine, immortal Oracle, as she grapples with bleak prophecies and struggles to adapt to the modern world.

Apr 22, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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A Little Life ★☆☆☆☆

Reviewers have described it as “a relentless pile-up of pain and physical suffering”, a “self-harm horror show”, and “so bleak it borders on the…

Apr 16, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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March 2023

The Sonnet Competition: Salt

Eleven sonnets on the theme of 'Salt'

Mar 8, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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Alexander the Great: the Making of a Myth

"You want a piece of me": myths, legends, and videogames

Mar 7, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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February 2023

Shakespeare in Italy

After Grandad died, I promised myself that I would sift through his papers, pursue any leads, and finish what he had started

Feb 24, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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The Oyster Problem ★★★★☆

The Oyster Problem is a remarkable pearl of a play: a patchwork of anecdotes and ideas that welcomes us into the private life of Gustave Flaubert and…

Feb 19, 2023 • Rachel Edwards

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