Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.

So imagine my surprise when I found a welcome, though intense, reflection of this harrowing period in the most unlikely place, Eric Bogosian‘s play, Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty, which is now ...

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. He fell off the wall - from the highest high - so high!

This is extremely challenging: the old Mother Goose nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty pointed out that after Humpty “had a great fall; all the king's horses, and all the king's men, couldn't put ...