Jenny Hall

Bicentenary: Joséphine Bowes in a 1850 portrait by Antoine Dury

Dial M for Mayhem! from Middle Ground Theatre Company instantly took my mind to Dial M for Murder, the 1950s thriller, but clearly with a twist.

Where the wild things are by Dr Richard Warren Forget-me-not. Myosotis species. Scorpion grass Forget-me-not is a fairly recent name in English. Shakespeare, who mentions many other plants, does not…