I took my first trip to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds last weekend. Opened in 1996, it is an overspill of the National Collection of Arms and Armour, not all of which can be housed in the Tower of London or other sites. Looking into the history of the museum since my visit, I’ve […]
This exhibition, like many of the artworks in it, bears up well under the weight of history. For Revolution is firmly rooted in the historic context of the period 1917-1932 in Russia – a time of upheavals, civil war, dictators and hopes born and cruelly dashed. Despite this, it manages to educate, illuminate and engage, […]
I very much admire Complicite’s work. As you will have spotted from my reviews I’m more often drawn to big names when booking cultural outings, but Complicite is a theatre company I’m more than happy to take a chance on, even when it means spending a Sunday afternoon indoors reading German surtitles. This production didn’t […]
Ah, January. A time for great new projects, an aim of self-improvement, a flurry of activity, and then… who knows? Having challenged myself to take advantage of the many opportunities London provides of hearing talks, lectures and panel discussions on a range of interesting topics, I found myself this week attending two at the National […]
I quite like when I come out of a play with a realisation that I need time to process it: what did it mean? Did I like it? Did I think it was any good? Nice Fish is definitely one of those plays for me, and I would add to my list of questions in […]
