The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey
“It was with some anticipation that I went along to see The Paper Cinema’s interpretation of this cornerstone of the Western canon. Actually “see” is inaccurate. It is very much a cross-sensory experience.”
Browsing: The Culturist
Safely Scary: The Woman in Black
“Dispatched to settle the affairs of a recently deceased woman, Kipps arrives in a quaint but markedly rude village in the heart of the Victorian countryside. Under the chocolate-box veneer, dark undercurrents flow.”
She Stoops to Conquer
Once Jamie Lloyd’s boisterous revival of She Stoops to Conquer gets into its stride, it is impossible not to be touched by Goldsmith’s acute investigation into the muddle of manners that was Georgian society.
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton at the V&A
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
WIE not WI
If you didn’t already know, Thursday 8th March 2012 is International Women’s Day. What more…
Pasqua and the Brain
My little sister ‘does the brain’. This is what a lot of people will tell…
Murder on the Nile
The latest production from The Agatha Christie Theatre Company was first adapted from Christie’s novel…
The Madness of George III
“Written in the style of 18th century caricature, it is impossible not to find much of the play hysterically funny, and yet equally impossible not to feel guilty for laughing.” Rebecca reviews The Madness of George III…
Laurie Anderson: Sonic Architect
A time-traveller. An inventor. The tape-bow violin and the six-foot-long MIDI controller-synched talking stick can be credited to her. An electronic pioneer and bona fide sonic architect. Meet Laurie Anderson…
Jazz and the City
The Aberdeen Discovery Show began in the spring of 2011 when Boisdale’s Thames-side location first opened (Belgravia and Bishopsgate preceded it). January marks the first month that it is taking place under new programming management.
Don’t Cry Baby: In Memory of Etta James
“Her vocals were at once those of a big cat and of a butterfly – a flurry of emotions vocalised instinctively and immediately. It was only later that I realised this was what soul music was.”
The Haunting
“I pray the poor soul chancing upon this despair-smirched scrawl forgives the quality of my record. It has been four nights since last I slept. Frequent opium use has afforded little respite to my fractured sanity…”