“I can see they’re acting, but I’m not sure why.” This was the initial reaction to Ballyturk of one of my theatregoing companions, but it essentially sums up most of the reviews I’ve read of Enda Walsh’s play recently staged at the National, having debuted at the Galway International Arts Festival earlier this year. I […]
Ok, I almost need to draw you a diagram for this one. You know Shakespeare, right? Macbeth, with the witches etc? Well Verdi wrote an opera of it in 1847. And then it was staged by a South African company at the Barbican. But they staged it as if they were a group of Congolese […]
At what point is it ok to call an exhibition out on being mainly an advertisement? This is how I felt about this one room exhibition on the John Lewis brand of department stores, which I briefly visited while at the Design Museum recently. The stated aims of the exhibitions are to mark 150 years […]
A lot of the reviews of this exhibition talk about how by trying to make a point of difference it positions itself firmly for those already familiar with Kahn’s work, but, coming with no preconceptions, I found it both interesting and educational. Louis Kahn was born in 1901 in what was then Russia but is […]
