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Author Archives: A S H Smyth

Nightmare

Friday, June 8, 2012

Best mate, in a bar, arm around his ex-girlfriend. I walk out. …………..Again.

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Summer

Saturday, June 2, 2012

A cheeky robin pecks at my al fresco lunch. BANG! ………No more robin.

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Status update (3) (after Lindenberg)

Thursday, May 31, 2012

ASH Smyth is in love with Rebecca Lindenberg. (Feel free to Like either of us.)

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Two Years At Sea

Friday, May 4, 2012

Anger-provoking art-house documentary about a guy who gets up to so little they don’t even bother to tell us his name (reviewed). — For theartsdesk

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Cymbeline (in Arabic)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Yesterday’s Globe theatre retelling of the Cymbeline story opened – or at least appeared to open – with the entire cast contributing their 2p-worth on the issue of what the story of Cymbeline actually was. And fair dos. A ‘late’ and abnormally tortuous Shakespearean number, Cymbeline seems not only to have been constructed out of […]

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theASHtray, vol.13

Saturday, April 28, 2012

David Walliams does Roald Dahl, AA Gill does Mary Beard, and I do children’s literature, Little Britain, Donald Sturrock, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sunday Times, Romans, the Daily Mail, Cicero, Bettany Hughes, Time Team, the Cambridge Latin Course, constipation, movie posters, The Ides of March, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The English Patient, […]

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theASHtray, vol.12

Saturday, April 21, 2012

A trenchant critique of all things Israel-Palestine – starring Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and Helena Bonham Carter – Ricky Gervais, retardations, Karl Pilkington, Channel 4, nurses, Gladiator, Star Wars, Leon, Madame Tussauds, Marvel, Shrek, Hamlet, Tom Phillips (RA), Lord of the Rings, Orhan Pamuk, museums, cabinets of curiosity, Istanbul, A Serbian Film, Daniel […]

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La Fille du régiment

Friday, April 20, 2012

Donizetti’s silliness at the ROH, reviewed. — For theartsdesk

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TS Eliot’s MO

Friday, April 20, 2012

I drop ice-cubes down the vests of those who can’t follow my pop-literary references.

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Town of Runners

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Documentary on what’s in the water in the distance-running capital of the world: Bekoji, Ethiopia. (Reviewed.) — For theartsdesk

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