Secrets will out in Kit Withington’s Heart Wall, a drama which explores the cost of grief and silence. Heart Wall Heart Wall begins before it begins. As you enter, you’re invited to scan a QR code, add a karaoke song to the list and – if you’re feeling brave – perform it. It’s a generous, […]
A lovely small exhibition at the Wallace Collection explores the WWII period: how the collections were safeguarded, and the uses to which Hertford House was put during wartime. The Wallace Collection at War I little thought, when I came to the Wallace Collection recently to see Caravaggio’s Cupid, that I would be back again so […]
Another popular exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, this time focusing on Seurat and the Sea. More From the Neo-Impressionists I’m not sure I’ve been in the position before of seeing two exhibitions in quick succession which had such commonalities they even featured some of the same paintings. Or at least one of the same paintings: […]
Stereotypes about London’s Latinx community are well and truly subverted in heist caper-meets-identity politics piece My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar. My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar If you are going to make space onstage for Latinx women in South East London, you might as well enjoy yourself. My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar at […]
A final Salterton Arts Review stop in Vienna as we visit the hugely influential Secession exhibition building, to see some contemporary art and Klimt’s wonderful Beethoven Frieze. A Final Stop in Vienna The Secession (or Secession Building, or Secession Museum, or Vienna Secession) is an institution I didn’t quite have on my list to visit […]
A very long overdue exhibition at the Royal Academy, as Rose Wylie becomes the first female painter to have a solo retrospective with The Picture Comes First. A Surprisingly Late Milestone I didn’t actually realise while I was visiting the exhibition. It was only later when I was doing a bit of reading in preparation […]
A chance reunion is not as accidental as it seems in The Dawn of Reckoning, a quietly unsettling two-hander that lets its secrets surface slowly over the course of a long night. The Dawn of Reckoning Director Matthew Parker is a dab hand at two-handers (see Trestle at the Jack Studio Theatre, which also featured […]
Tate Britain’s exhibition Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals brings two important English artists back into focus as contemporaries, each developing their own response to a changing world. Tate Britain After Hours Those who have visited my blog in the past may recall that I frequently find the scale of exhibitions at Tate Britain a […]
In Emergency Exits the Imperial War Museum tackle head on the British approach to independence movements in the 1950s, citing three different case studies to build a robust picture. Emergency Exits Flitting around London’s museums, as I do, it’s a useful exercise to think about their origins, and their position in the world (and the […]
With just one onstage performer and a great many ideas, Shallowspace proves that ambitious science-fiction theatre doesn’t need a blockbuster budget. Shallowspace I love small theatre productions with big ambitions. And what can be bigger than a timespan of thousands of years, an archive of humanity floating through space, pulled off with a single actor […]
