Les Enfants Zouri – Satan lors d’une cérémonie destinée à récupérer des trésors enfouis depuis des millénaires. Pour apaiser les djinns, qui gardent les objets de valeur, un groupe de jeunes Zouhris sont kidnappés et sacrifiés. Avant que les djinns ne permettent aux chercheurs de creuser pour s’enrichir, ils veulent une certaine quantité de sang des enfants.
Ensuite, les ravisseurs recueillent le sang à des fins rituelles en coupant la gorge de l’enfant. Read More...
The ObserverRedmond O'HanlonReviewNaturalist Redmond O'Hanlon's travels round the England of his boyhood make charming if poignant readingIn Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, nature writer William Boot was bottom of the food chain at the Daily Beast. He had the unsexy countryside beat all to himself when he wrote the "Lush Places" column: "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole". But thanks to a boom in writing about the great outdoors, the questing vole can barely move for prosperous naturalists these days. Read More...
TheatreObituaryTom Kempinski obituaryActor and playwright best known for his 1980 stage hit Duet for One, which was later turned into a filmIt is widely accepted that most writers, most playwrights, write about bits of themselves. But few go so far as Tom Kempinski. For some years, Kempinski, who has died aged 85, was a self-confessed overweight, depressed agoraphobic who adopted survival mode through writing about his condition.
In his best known play, Duet for One (1980), he disguised an argument with himself in the six fractious meetings between a renowned concert violinist, Stephanie Abrahams, suddenly struck down with multiple sclerosis, and a German Jewish psychiatrist, Dr Feldman, hoping to convince her that life is still worth living. Read More...