Spectator competition winners: Shakespeare reviews West Side Story

In Competition No. 3287, you were invited to supply a review of a film, novel, poem or play in the style of a writer for whom the theme might be deemed an appropriate choice. Thanks to Philip Stevens for suggesting this terrific challenge, which attracted a sizeable and stellar entry. Honourable mentions to Moray McGowan’s Kafka on The Very Hungry Caterpillar (‘There is a story here, but it needs something more radical, perhaps even wildly implausible, to make it more realistic.’), Chris O’Carroll’s T.S. Eliot on James and the Giant Peach and Russell Chamberlain’s Jeremy Clarkson on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In an especially hotly contested week, the winners below snaffle £25 apiece.

Yestreen I was allowed back to the earth,
And in a darkened room, upon a screen,
Were moving coloured pictures of a play
About two warring families! ’Twas mine,
A copy, right, but still they had the right,
Since I am centuries past copyright.
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