What might puppets tell humans about mortality?
Anna Wheeler looks at the art of puppetry and the insight it gives to mortality and the human experience. 17/07/2023
In Depth
Life in the major and minor
Anna Wheeler explores the childhood classic, The Snowman, and the symbolic illustration it draws of the human experience of life and death. 16/08/2022
In Brief
To grieve, or not to grieve (with balloons)? – that is the question
Anna Wheeler explores grief, struggling vicars and balloons in her review of Stephen Beresford’s latest play, The Southbury Child. 02/08/2022
Review
Hope and Doubt along the tracks of life’s steam train
Anna Wheeler reflects on what the Polar Express teaches us about hope and doubt. 05/01/2021
In Brief
Disguise as a means of discovery
In this blog Anna Wheeler contemplates the theology of mask–wearing. 01/09/2020
In Brief
Heroism as grace: a beautiful day in the neighborhood
Anna Wheeler reviews A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. 04/02/2020
In Brief
The Convert: reflections on the true cost of certainty
Anna Wheeler reviews ‘The Convert’ at the Young Vic, exploring themes of conversion and identity. 11/02/2019
In Brief
Truth in the Dark
Anna Wheeler reviews a play inspired by the sapper William Hackett, ‘The Trench’, to mark the centenary of the end of World War One. 05/11/2018
In Brief
‘Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought To Say’
Anna Wheeler reviews ‘The Writer’ and discusses how good theatre, like religion, should challenge us to speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
In Brief
The theology of The Snow Queen
‘Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven’. Anna Wheeler reflects on an old children’s story. 18/12/17
In Depth
How real are you? Bill Viola’s ‘Martyrs’
In time for Easter, Anna Wheeler reviews Bill Viola’s moving–image art installation at St Paul’s Cathedral – ‘Martyrs’.
In Depth
Stations of the Cross – suffering, then and now
Anna Wheeler reviews Dennis McBride’s book ‘Stations of the Cross – then and now’
In Brief