In today's Sunday Times Culture, I write about the casting of Abi Titmuss in Lady MacBeth. She made me toast, with raspberry jam, which was nice of her. I interviewed her in Lowestoft, which is, incidentally, both the most easterly point of Britain, and the home of ersatz 70s rock outfit, The Darkness.
Which leads me to another piece in Culture, Bryan Appleyard's compelling discussion of darkness and orphans in children's literature and cinema. I like "airless" as a description of Maurice Sendak's cartoons. I had a recurring nightmare when I was little about the child-catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Every night for about a year, he was on the hunt for me. It didn't matter what precautions I put in place, he was always too wily. I normally woke up just as he was about to pounce, but the lingering sensation of airlessness, or suffocation, remained.
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