MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Eric Bentley: Populariser of the works of Bertholt Brecht and Hans Eisler in the West
FORTHRIGHT: Eric Bentley in 1965
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
ERIC BENTLEY, who died earlier this month at the age of 103, was a British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator.
An Oxford graduate, Bentley went on to study at Yale University and, after becoming an American citizen in 1948, lived for many years in New York.
In the 1950s Bentley taught at Columbia University and simultaneously was a theatre critic for The New Republic. Known for his blunt style of criticism, he incurred the wrath of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, both of whom threatened to sue him for his unfavourable reviews of their work.
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