Review: Eight Songs for a Mad King

King George III, despite hav­ing been a learned and enthu­si­as­tic spon­sor of sci­en­tif­ic and indus­tri­al progress, a faith­ful hus­band and father, and in many ways very lib­er­al for his time (except pro-slav­ery, just say­ing), is basi­cal­ly famous for hav­ing gone mad. That mad­ness has been scru­ti­nized, diag­nosed, and mocked round­ly in mod­ern lit­er­a­ture, film, TV, […]

Review: Te Pō

Three men gath­er in a room. Detec­tive Inspec­tor Brett is look­ing for Bruce Mason who has gone miss­ing. Rev­erend Athol Sedgewick had din­ner with Mason the night before last and is pos­si­bly the last per­son to see him before he dis­ap­peared. Wer­i­he has an eight o’clock appoint­ment with the play­wright. No-one has any idea where he […]