Ibsen’s Ghosts
Ghosts, currently playing at Rose Theatre Kingston brings Stephen Unwin’s (who is also the creative director of this play) translation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1800s...
Paintings From Prayer
Stephen B Whatley’s work is featured on our August/September front cover and on Thursday I went to his private preview entitled ‘Paintings From Prayer’...
Designing Antiquity by Stephanie Moser
Apart from its scholarly and visual merits, this study deserves recognition as the second book-length work about Owen Jones, the once-famous Victorian architect and...
David Bowie Is at the V&A
The ‘David Bowie Is’, currently on at the V&A until mid-August. I went to the late show on a Friday after work, a stone’s...
Audrey Niffenegger at the Southbank Centre
I was lucky enough to be in the audience of Audrey Niffenegger’s talk on Monday 27th May. Here, she talked openly to the audience...
The Problem with Paolo Sorrentino by George Hull
The work of Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino combines a compelling visual style with a unique sensitivity for psychological subtleties. The five feature-length films he...
The Modern Eye – Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern
‘Without anxiety and sickness I would have been a rudderless ship…’– E. Munch
At any given time of the year, somewhere on the continent, there...
Fragment of the Fringe: a Reflection. By Oliver Wood
The fringe, so say the mummers, has become over-commercialised in recent years. Too many agents, too much spin, a lack of government support, not...
Men at Work
Holland Park Opera: Tchaikovsky, Yevgeny Onegin and Verdi, FalstaffThe Merry Wives of Windsor is a very dull play indeed. We can be grateful for...
The Fear of Breathing. By James Denselow
Over sixteen months into the unrest in Syria a true picture of events on the ground is still hard to ascertain. This is partly...