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Ed Byrne: ‘Spoiler Alert’

by culturised | May 21, 2018 | Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Events, Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Not To Miss, Performance, What's On: Performance

Ed Byrne has been an acclaimed stand-up (with audiences and critics alike) for 20 years now. His...

A 21st Century Farce: The Game of Love and Chai

by Joseph Willis | May 9, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

The first thing that comes to mind when going to see a farce, especially one that has been updated...

“Did You Hear the Rumour?”: The Immersive World of ‘Isle of Dogs’

by Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott | May 5, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

For a certain type of person, the past month has most likely been filled with Isle of Dogs fever....

Composing Modern Musicals: In Conversation with Dougal Irvine

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | May 5, 2018 | Events, Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Performance, What's On: Performance

Teddy the Musical is transforming London’s Vaults beneath Waterloo into Elephant and Castle...

We Could Be Hero: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Rose Theatre, Kingston

by Lexy Hudson | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

Going into Much Ado About Nothing, my expectations were modest. No disrespect to the play — in...

Podcast Spotlight: ‘You Must Remember This’

by Sophie Davies | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Spotlight

To listen in to You Must Remember This head to their website or download directly from ITunes You...

‘Is that your final answer?’: James Graham’s ‘Quiz’

by Sian Bayley | Apr 13, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

As we begin to settle in our seats an overly-enthusiastic warm-up comic bounds on stage in a...

‘A not so moudy tale’: Cheek by Jowl’s ‘Pericles’

by Sian Bayley | Apr 12, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, one that would give you a particularly...

Bowie Book Club: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

by Samantha Elden | Apr 5, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

The second installment of Duncan Jones’ #BowieBookClub is the influential The Fire Next...

Multiple Spotlights: In Conversation with Carrie Hope Fletcher

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Apr 3, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Performance

Carrie Hope Fletcher. Musical theatre star, best-selling author, internet star, and now releasing...

Just Horse Play?: ‘Ex Anima’ by Théâtre Équestre Zingaro

by Susanna Forrest | Mar 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

The circular theatre was dark. Swamp creature noises played over the sound system. Slowly we...

A Spectacle of Horror: ‘Macbeth’ at the RSC

by Liam Taft | Mar 23, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has a habit, it seems, of relying on crowd pleasing. In 2016,...

Season 3 of ‘Love’ and the Lessons on Toxic Masculinity

by Daisy Bard | Mar 23, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Have you ever had that thing where you give a guy the benefit of the doubt, only to find out later...

Tragicomedy and Coping: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at the Bristol Old Vic

by Rosemary Collins | Mar 16, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, is about the transition from the old to the new...

Bowie Book Club: Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Hawksmoor’

by Samantha Elden | Mar 15, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

In December 2017, film director Duncan Jones, also known as David Bowie’s son, began the...

Chiaroscuro in ‘The Night of the Hunter’

by Tim Moffatt | Mar 14, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

The setting of Davis Grubb’s 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter represents a mythologised...

Visualising Music: ‘Colours’ by Dimitri Scarlato

by Dzifa Benson | Mar 13, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Performance

In his new project Colours, composer and conductor Dimitri Scarlato journeys through an aural...

The Domestic Horror Stories of ‘Inside No. 9’

by Sophie Davies | Mar 12, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

As half of The League of Gentlemen and the creators of Psychoville, writer-performers Reece...

International Women’s Day: The Badass Women of Horror

by Jessie Carpenter | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Women have been raped, abused, and butchered in horror films for as long as permitted by...

Putting the ‘Smart’ in Independent Film: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ and ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’

by Laura Aiton | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Independent films are those which defy the conventions of traditional Hollywood cinema. ‘Smart’...

International Women’s Day: Bernard MacLaverty’s ‘Midwinter Break’

by Rebecca Duncan | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film, Uncategorized

In her review of Bernard MacLaverty’s latest novel Midwinter Break, Irish author Anne Enright...

Searching for Bodhisattva Guanyin in ‘Journey to the West’

by Stephanie Carta | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Before I read Journey to the West, I was intrigued by the syncretic worldview common to Confucian...

‘Girlfriends’ at the BFI: Curating Female Relationships

by Matilda Payne | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

The BFI is now moving into the second month of a season dedicated to film depictions of female...

Continuing Restoration Battles: Hannah Cowley’s ‘The Belle’s Stratagem’

by Hannah Forsyth | Mar 8, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

“All I know is whatever we do – it must be twice as well as men to be thought half as...

Carson McCullers: A Reading Recommendation for International Women’s Day

by Rebecca Duncan | Mar 7, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

This year, 2017, marks the centenary of Carson McCullers’ birth. It seems appropriate then that on...

Scarier than Fiction: Bête Noire’s production of Father of Lies

by Lexy Hudson | Mar 5, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance

True crime is something of a nomadic genre. Aside from comedy, no other type of narrative...

The Best of All Possible Narratives: The Storytelling Secrets Behind the Success of Netflix’s ‘Dark’

by Lexy Hudson | Feb 21, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

The “x meets y” formulation is one of the most efficient ways to pitch an idea. Nowhere have I...

Complicated Families in Post-War Japanese Film: Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Tokyo Twilight’

by Stephanie Carta | Feb 19, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

At the time of their release, the films of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) did not have...

Bathroom Pathos in ‘Grief is the Thing With Feathers’

by Sarah Alwin | Feb 12, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter is a contemporary depiction of loss and mourning in...

The Anonymous Face of the Net: ‘The Believers are but Brothers’

by Trevor White | Feb 11, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance

“At the edge of our decaying bodies lies a network of power greater than any tyrant has ever...

Got Plans for Armageddon? Marching To ‘The End of the World’ with Cat Loud

by Matilda Payne | Feb 9, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Uncategorized, What's On: Performance

This is the end, hold your breath and count to ten. The Vault’s performance space is a fitting...

Braving the Horror: Danse Macabre’s “Nightmares in Progress”

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Feb 4, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance

Horror despite its potential has often found itself avoided by theatre practitioners despite...

Pick of the Vaults Festival 2018

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Jan 20, 2018 | Events, Features, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, What's On: Performance

In what has been dubbed “London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe” The Vaults in London are...

A Labour of Love: In Conversation with Jennifer Kirby

by Sian Bayley | Jan 19, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Literature & Film

Actress Jennifer Kirby has had an illustrious stage career, working with the Royal Shakespeare...

A Career in Two Parts: In Conversation with Annabel Scholey

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Jan 18, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Literature & Film

Annabel Scholey is an actress most recently acclaimed for her performance in the Netflix hit...

Hashtag Art: In Conversation with Tabloid Art History

by Charlotte Vinsen | Jan 15, 2018 | Art & Exhibitions, Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews

Tabloid Art History is a Twitter account with a simple premise – tabloid photographs paired with...

The Endurance of Monologues: ‘Heretic Voices’ at the Arcola Theatre

by Georgina Wilson | Jan 12, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance

Seeing three monologues on the trot throws into sharp relief both the possibilities and the...

Culturised’s Top Theatre of 2017

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Jan 11, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Performance

2017 was a huge year for theatre with revelations rocking its core, new portfolio organisations...

Intellectual Snobbery? – Limiting the Brontës to the world of classic literature

by Rebecca Duncan | Jan 9, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

It is the classic dichotomy; old vs young, tradition vs innovation, the classical vs the modern. ...

Drop the mic Jamael Westman: ‘Hamilton’ at the Victoria Palace Theatre

by Georgina Wilson | Jan 8, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance

Hamilton audiences are split into two camps. Either you know the whole soundtrack word by word,...

Culturised’s Top Literature Picks of 2017

by Rebecca Duncan | Jan 4, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

At the start of 2017 when I chose a selection of books to look out for in 2017, it was difficult...

New Routes, Medieval Roots: The Medieval Aesthetic and The Green Man Festival

by Stephanie Monteith | Jan 2, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Performance

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.

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