The play “Mnemonic” first appeared on the stage in 1999, quickly establishing itself as a classic, and it has been reactivated and ‘reimagined’ for a new production at  the National Theatre in London.   Sean Sheehan   The drama   does not begin with the lights going out but with an […]

The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played the fiddle while the city burned down. Probably apocryphal but it serves as an image of irresponsibility in the face of a disaster.   Sean Sheehan   A real-life equivalent is a tourist attempting to grab a piece of melted iceberg […]

London’s Southbank is one of the city’s locations not to be missed on sunny days or balmy evenings, especially the pedestrianized stretch between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge.   Sean Sheehan   The views up or down the Thames from either of these bridges are memorable and not to be […]

On a recent trip to Peru I made a visit to Casa Aliaga, a colonial mansion first built when Pizarro handed out goodies to his soldiers. One of them, Jerónimo de Aliaga y Ramirez, built a grand house and seventeen generations of his family have been living there since 1535. […]