![]() ![]() However, it is designed to provoke nothing but discussion with Goris instead focusing on the beauty and poignancy of the piece. It has premiered elsewhere in Europe, receiving, says Goris, many different reactions from audiences. But that's not to say we couldn't or wouldn't appreciate it if we were there, and I can see why Goris feels the delicate topic of child soldiers is so relevant to other young people and therefore should be dealt with with them in mind. I can't imagine my friends and I choosing to go and see it over a great, trashy chick-flick at the cinema, but then again I doubt many teenagers consider a night at the MIF particularly thrilling. Through this installation we go inside the mind of the child, hearing their pain and tiny bit of hope – certainly a heavier piece but one Goris thinks young people should be able to relate to. Long Grass enters the "quite dark world" of child soldiers. ![]() Goris' programme also includes a show for young adults. When asked how many of them had been to the theatre before, about a third kept their hands down. In fact, at the showing of one of her pieces, ZigZag ZigZag, at Pike Fold primary school in north Manchester, the year 5 class was mesmerised hushed when it was serious or shouting out contributions and laughing wildly at the interactivity of the performance. Her work is exploratory, not necessarily following a linear storyline but the kids still get it. She stresses the value of children's imagination and openness to the arts: "They have invention centres in their minds and I feel like by growing up we close that down," Goris says. Her enthusiasm for all things childlike was clear. Last week, Sedley reached for the magisterial putdown by accusing Mears of demonstrating ‘the depth to which public discourse has sunk’.I went along to meet Goris who seemed intrigued (and possibly a little bewildered) at the concept of talking to a teenager – a potential member of her target audience – about her work. The court’s decision was political: ‘Does one anyone really think the justices, in their personal capacities, were not in sympathy with the objective of ?’ ![]() Piffle, says Mears, responding in the LRB’s letters pages. The object of Mears’ ire this time is an article by Sir Stephen defending the Supreme Court as a bulwark of the constitutional principle ‘that nobody, not even the Crown’s ministers, is above the law’. Suffice to say he was never renowned for political correctness. ![]() In the mid-1990s, he cut a swath through the Chancery Lane establishment on a populist ticket that won him feisty interviews in national newspapers. Retired lord justice of appeal Sir Stephen Sedley has locked horns with former Law Society president Martin Mears over the Supreme Court’s decision in the prorogation case.Ĭountry solicitor Mears, older readers may recall, does not shrink from confrontation. A spat has erupted in the London Review of Books, an ordinarily genteel magazine for highbrow types keen to expand their (already voluminous) vocabularies. ![]()
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