Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

Described by Salman Rushdie as excellently witty, I write in various places https://t.co/d8KByjhj3B… https://t.co/DjdPgUwgfA Hove Joined April 2007

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

a month ago

Forty years agter the Collected Poems of Stevie Smith !975) came a new one (2015), which has many more drawings and poems which were either rounded up for Me Again or uncollected - including those from Night and Day magazine in 1937. She is terrific. Well produced by @FaberBooks

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

2 months ago

To the announcement yesterday evening of @BPO_orchestra's autumn/winter season, which has many pleasingly unexpected items. Be sure to book (open to the public a week today). Yesterday's convivial gathering, with Joanna MacGregor, included percussionists and Reich's "Clapping".

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

2 months ago

JOIE DE VIVRE A note on the glorious film Love Me Tonight (1932) for which Rodgers and Hart wrote the songs. It should be better known. christopherhawtree.com/films.html

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

To the Barn Theatre in Southwick for the opening of its production of Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train which I had only seen as the 1941 film and as inspiration for Will Hay's Oh! Mr Porter (1937). The 1925 play has its own brio: it speeds up, rather like a train. A great time.

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

At the gym somebody mentioned the virtues of apple cider vinegar - especially with the Oedipal ingredient known as "mother".

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Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp

3 months ago

“Desire paths” are trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating secondary paths. Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

A remarkable article about a terrible crime. This reconstruction should be available on the NHS rather than crowdfunded. @Brunswick_Green @TheGreenParty nytimes.com/2025/06/02/wor…

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

The man in headphones is protected from the noise he makes with a crisp packet.

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

To @TownerGallery paintings and other work gathered as Sussex Modernism. A good number of late-Twenties views of the sea from Portslade by David Jones. I did not know Lee Miller's photograph of Saul Steinberg posed, his pen seeming to draw Long Man of Wilmington on the hill.

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

3 months ago

To @nvt_brighton for its sold-out run of the Richard Eyre take on Ibsen's Ghosts, which made me gasp all the more: it turned out to be acting debut of @robshepherd who was as good as the rest of the excellent cast. Shall catch up with the disc of Judi Dench in it.

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

To a congenial Walrus pub in Brighton for @CohenBobbycoco in James Callas Ball's new, three-hander play The Flat Earthers set in a pub. Wittily humane, its meeting of conspiracy theorists will surely be seen around, I mean across the world - even in Hove, subject of a running gag

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

On returning from Anoushka Shankar's concert there was time for Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup which Mussolini banned. I shouldn't be surprised if Trump does so, for it has sport with thr subject of... tafiffs. And its overarching subject of war is as potent as ever.

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

To @brightdome for Anoushka Shankar's very enjoyable New Dawn sitar concert with multi-instrumentist jazz trio who had to speak on her behalf because she had lost her voice after joining a Festival audience in Yoko Ono's participatory "Scream".

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

How could anybody set store by what footballer Gary Lineker has to say when he promotes ultra-processed @WalkersCrisps?

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

Successive evenings @brightdome. First, @londonsymphony Leila Josefowicz rousing in Stravinsky's violin concerto; second, @CastalianQtet joined by @ShekuKM who, solo, played the Suite by Natalie Klouda - as marvellously varied as Schubert quintet D956. @Brunswick_Green @ShanksSue

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

MOG AND THE KITTEN A note on Ecstasy (1933). christopherhawtree.com/films.html

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Christopher Hawtree @chrishawtree

4 months ago

I have been looking at the two late-Fifties volumes by @RCAF_ARC combined by @PenguinUKBooks as Physical Fitness (1964). A diagram shows that a well-exercised body is more efficient than a petrol engine.