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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
The Tablet Reprints Excerpt from Waugh Requiem
The current issue of The Tablet reprints an excerpt from the address delivered by Fr. Philip Caraman at the Requiem Mass for Evelyn Waugh at Westminster Cathedral on 21 April 1966: Christ commanded us to trade with our talents. This Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Brideshead Reviewed (Yet More)
The Daily Mail has posted a brief but largely positive review of the Brideshead Revisited stage adaptation that opened last week in York. The review is by Patrick Marmion who, after praising the production and performances (“serious, witty and elegant”), concludes: … it was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged A Younger Theatre, BBC Radio 4, Bryony Lavery, Daily Mail, Patrick Marmion, Samira Ahmed, York Theatre Royal, YorkMix
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Brideshead Reviewed (More)
Several more reviews have been posted of the stage production of Brideshead Revisted. In the York Press, Charles Hutchinson finds much to like in the new theatre, the settings and the performances but also concludes that as Bryony Lavery’s two … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged British Theatre Guide, Kirkbymoorside Town Blog, The Times, What's On Stage, York Press
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Labels Reassessed
A multicultural, award-winning internet portal called Qantara.de has posted a new review (or reassessment) of Waugh’s 1930 travel book Labels: A Mediterranean Journey. This site is sponsored by several German cultural and political institutions, including the Goethe Institut and Deutsche … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Edmund Campion, Labels, Officers and Gentlemen
Tagged Qantara, Sherif Abdel Samad
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Black Mischief in Sri Lanka
In this week’s “Midweek Review” column in the daily Sri Lankan English-language newspaper The Island, columnist Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe compares what he describes as the neocolonialist policies of the current government of Sri Lanka with the comic plot of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Brideshead Reviewed
The stage production of Brideshead Revisited that opened last week at York’s Theatre Royal has been reviewed in several media. The reviewers like the settings and production but largely express disappointment with the script and direction. Claire Allfree in today’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Claire Allfree, Daily Telegraph, Man on a Ledge, Natasha Tripney, Sarah Freeman, The Stage, Theater reviews, York Post
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Waugh Lecture on Friendship with Nancy Mitford
Lancing College has posted a report on the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture which was presented last week at the college by Selina Hastings: Selina’s subject for her talk was the literary and epistolary relationship between Waugh and his lifetime friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lancing, Lectures, Letters
Tagged Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings
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Brideshead People in Telegraph
Today’s Daily Telegraph contains a discussion (not quite a review) of the theatrical version of Brideshead Revisited that opened last week in York. This is in an article by Rupert Christiansen entitled: “What became of the real people who inspired … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Christopher Simpson, Daily Telegraph, Damian Cruden, Rupert Christiansen
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“BBC Future” Cites Waugh on Class Structure
On a recently established web site called BBC Future, one of their staff writers, David Robson, earlier this month posted an essay entitled “How much does social class matter in Britain today.” He concludes that it does still matter but to … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged BBC Future, Class system, David Robson
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