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Where is Everyone?: The Secret Medieval Heritage of Wharram Percy
Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Wolds, the deserted village of Wharram Percy lies quiet and...
Bowie Book Club: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The second installment of Duncan Jones’ #BowieBookClub is the influential The Fire Next...
‘Is that your final answer?’: James Graham’s ‘Quiz’
As we begin to settle in our seats an overly-enthusiastic warm-up comic bounds on stage in a...
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New Routes, Medieval Roots: The Medieval Aesthetic and The Green Man Festival
The Green Man towers over us in the middle of a hilltop field, the face-of-foliage smiling skyward. His livery of greenery rustles gently in the wind. Behind him curls a snarling red dragon, and together they make a flammable tableau of medieval mythologies. It is a wet weekend in August at the Green Man Festival in Brecknockshire, rural Wales.
International Women’s Day: Bernard MacLaverty’s ‘Midwinter Break’
In her review of Bernard MacLaverty’s latest novel Midwinter Break, Irish author Anne Enright...
Tragicomedy and Coping: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at the Bristol Old Vic
Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, is about the transition from the old to the new...
Trailblazers: Eight Women Who Rewrote The Rules
As International Women’s Day falls on the 8th March, I thought it fitting I lay out eight...
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Classic Novels That Deserve Adaptations
It’s a common cliché that Hollywood is running out of ideas (check out last year’s article...
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Pick of the Vaults Festival 2018
In what has been dubbed “London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe” The Vaults in London are...
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A Career in Two Parts: In Conversation with Annabel Scholey
Annabel Scholey is an actress most recently acclaimed for her performance in the Netflix hit...
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Culturised’s Top Theatre of 2017
2017 was a huge year for theatre with revelations rocking its core, new portfolio organisations...
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Intellectual Snobbery? – Limiting the Brontës to the world of classic literature
It is the classic dichotomy; old vs young, tradition vs innovation, the classical vs the modern. ...
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Culturised’s Top Literature Picks of 2017
At the start of 2017 when I chose a selection of books to look out for in 2017, it was difficult...
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Man Booker Prize 2017: Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire”
A novel like Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire – long listed for the Man Booker Prize – could not...
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