Day of the Locust – Pleasance Courtyard ★★★

The Hollywood dream has always contained a nightmare. When Nathanael West published The Day of the Locust in 1939, he looked beyond the glamour of the movie industry and focused instead on those marooned at its edges: aspiring actors, failed artists, displaced workers and hopeful migrants who had travelled west believing California would transform their … Continue reading Day of the Locust –…