The Lyric is in Another Castle: Poetry and Video Games
Intro: Huge thanks to a number of people I’ve bored to death in talking about this without...
Read Moreby Dave Coates | Jul 31, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Intro: Huge thanks to a number of people I’ve bored to death in talking about this without...
Read Moreby Sophie Davies | Jul 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Judy and Johnny dress in typical 1950s fashion, live in a typical 1950s house and have a typical...
Read Moreby Elizabeth Wilson | Jul 18, 2018 | Art & Exhibitions, Events, Features, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss
You’ve heard of the “Northern Powerhouse”. You’ve heard that “it’s grim up north” and that you...
Read Moreby Lucy Corley | Jul 6, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight
You know a show is something special when you’re disappointed to reach the interval. As the lights...
Read Moreby culturised | Jul 4, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Deborah Alma, on editing #MeToo- rallying against sexual harrassment- a women’s poetry anthology...
Read Moreby Dzifa Benson | Jun 30, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
On the 1st of July in the Baptist Hall in Ledbury, Rhys Trimble and I will enact a ritual ‘air...
Read Moreby Allie Milledge | Jun 20, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Let’s be honest, the world right now is a little hard to manage. The political unbalance is rife,...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Jun 13, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
It is difficult to write extensively on a piece of theatre which can be aptly summarised in three...
Read Moreby Sarah Alwin | Jun 5, 2018 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
The early Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Remains of the Day, published in 1989, is a story that...
Read Moreby Mabel Slattery | May 30, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Puckoon is a strange book. This is not really a useful thing to open any criticism with, I’m...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | May 28, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Though figuratively they may speak volumes, paintings don’t tend to literally speak for...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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....
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Samantha Elden | Apr 5, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
The second installment of Duncan Jones’ #BowieBookClub is the influential The Fire Next...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Susanna Forrest | Mar 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
The circular theatre was dark. Swamp creature noises played over the sound system. Slowly we...
Read Moreby 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,...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Dzifa Benson | Mar 13, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Performance
In his new project Colours, composer and conductor Dimitri Scarlato journeys through an aural...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Laura Aiton | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Independent films are those which defy the conventions of traditional Hollywood cinema. ‘Smart’...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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. ...
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