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THE STAGE REVIEW | DIARY OF A MADMAN

Diary of a Madman Published  Tuesday 28 May 2013  at  10:46  by  Susie Wild Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, Robert Bowman’s one-man show charts the unravelling of 40-something civil servant Poprishchin in 1830s Russia. Sharpening pencils for His Excellency, he is schoolboy impish when describing the beautiful object of his affection: “Her dress was white like a swan, and when she looked at me it was like the sun shining - I swear it.” Robert Bowman in Diary of a Madman Photo: Katy Stephenson First performed in Chapter in 2011 as a development piece funded by the Arts Council of Wales, Diary of a Madman was created using the Michael Chekhov Technique and sees Poprishchin move down a scale of emotions from naively quixotic through a spat of psychosis giggles - can dogs write? Could this handwriting be described as ‘doggy’? Could he be the next King of Spain? - to a dark and surreal place. Illness meant that Bowman was croaky and performing under par to start with.

THE LAMPETER REVIEW | NO LAUGHTER AFTER MIDNIGHT

'Boxes lined the lounge and the hall and built a cardboard city across the spare bed. It wasn’t as if she wanted them there, not really, but she didn’t know what else to do.'  I've a brand new story, 'No Laughter After Midnight' in the new Lampeter Review: http://issuu.com/lampeter-review/docs/7_issue