Bella Stock, Author at Cherwell

Returning to my favourite play: Dancing at Lughnasa

If we’re not watching Saoirse Ronan star in her latest feature film, we’re quoting Derry Girls from memory or fetishing Connell’s chain and fan-girling...

Comfort Films: The Secret Garden

It is fascinating to me that nostalgia, coined in the 17th century, was originally treated as a physical disease. Nostalgia was used to describe...

Finality in film: The sense of an ending

For me, it is always endings, not beginnings, which leave the most lasting impression: the ends of novels, films, historical epochs – even lives....

In Defence of a Goddess: why I love Nigella

In the comedy Miranda, Penny, Miranda’s preposterous mother, laments that her daughter ‘hasn’t been blessed by the goddess of socialising.’ ‘There isn’t a goddess of socialising’,...

Bare derrieres for bums on seats? Shock value on stage

By the time Iqbal Khan’s Anthony and Cleopatra reached its dénouement at the RSC, we were almost three hours in and, despite the production...

Three wishes for Oxford

Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Oxford Playhouse review –...

Reinventing the epistolary novel

Review: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

Bella Stock

Returning to my favourite play: Dancing at Lughnasa

Comfort Films: The Secret Garden

Finality in film: The sense of an ending

In Defence of a Goddess: why I love Nigella

Bare derrieres for bums on seats? Shock value on stage

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