A well-structured exhibition at the British Library, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words brings to life the evidence for women’s contributions to the private, public and religious spheres of medieval life. At the British Library Once More After an absence of a couple of years, I have visited the British Library twice in recent months […]
Alexander Raptotasios’s new adaptation Antigone [on strike] brings this classic tale forward into the age of social media, globalised geopolitics, and real time democracy. Antigone [on strike] As I’m sure I’ve said on the blog before, the classics are classics for a reason. It’s astounding the way that certain stories from the ancient world continue […]
Blending artefacts and contemporary art, Hew Locke interrogates the archives and stores of the British Museum in order to ask timely and important questions about museums and their relationship to power, history-telling and colonialism. Hew Locke: what have we here? The Salterton Arts Review has been a little preoccupied in January, and so it was […]
Talawa have the perfect antidote to winter blues with the infectiously vibrant and exuberant Play On!, gracing London on the final stop on tour. Play On! Two nights at the theatre, for two such different shows! Yesterday we had an evening of juggling and magic at The Place, as we were treated to Gandini Juggling’s […]
