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Re: Samuels, "Written in Darkness" available
MOON BLOOD-RED, TIDE TURNING by Mark Samuels
A new story by Mark Samuels, that had, right from the start, an aura - via the male narrator working in his relative youth at a theatrical publishers - of Reggie Oliver, and at the end, I finally saw that the story is dedicated to Reggie.
A satire dealing with tradition versus experiment in the theatre, the time-bending journeys from London to Cornwall, a vaguely unrequited romance with a woman who gets her own negative requital at the end, the nice touch of a Powysian amphitheatre built into a Cornish cliff, and a reprise of Dr Prozess from another story I read recently, and I was rather taken with the Brechtian drama production that induced such audience alienation. I wish I could have seen it.
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