The tri-island nation of Grenada is a great spot for holiday-makers who enjoy a good helping of history and culture with their beaches and rum punch. Grenada for Culture Lovers A couple of years after our very successful trip to Antigua, the Urban Geographer and I were looking for another destination for a week or […]
Places I Never Think About is a tender, funny, and richly crafted piece of queer storytelling, using music, folklore, and puppetry to bring Eastern European myths to life. Places I Never Think About There’s something deeply human about storytelling at its most essential. A circle of listeners, voices across generations weaving and embellishing old stories. […]
The Globe’s Romeo and Juliet, transplanted to the Wild West, gains more visually than textually from the shift. At the Globe on a Hot Summer’s Day Gosh, it’s been such a long time since I visited Shakespeare’s Globe. Years, in fact. Time does get away on you a bit, doesn’t it? And the Salterton Arts […]
Edward Burra’s vivid, unsettling vision is given rare breathing room in this well-curated and thoughtful exhibition. Two-for-One Exhibitions: The Perfect Solution It’s no secret I often find Tate Britain’s exhibition galleries overwhelming. In fact I complain about it so frequently, even I’m sick of it! The winding trek through its ground floor temporary exhibition space […]
A promising concept, Who is Claude Cahun? does a lot more explaining than it does exploration of a complex, compelling identity. Who is Claude Cahun? Well, to start off with, I’ve seen the play now and I’m still not sure I know the answer to this question. Or at least not more than I did […]
Lucia Martinez’s The Room of Piss returns in an expanded version that builds on its inventive physical theatre and quirky energy to explore themes of chronic illness. The Room of Piss I recently returned to The Room of Piss, having first seen its shorter iteration at the Barons Court Theatre during the Voila! Theatre Festival […]
In Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits at Kenwood House, John Singer Sargent’s luminous images of Gilded Age heiresses reveal women wielding beauty, money, and portraiture to cross oceans, claim titles, and shape their own mythologies. Heiress at Kenwood House: A Fitting Setting for Transatlantic Dreams There could hardly be a more appropriate venue for Heiress: Sargent’s […]
A darkly comic new play at Barons Court Theatre, One Hundred Percent explores the cost of artistic ambition and self-delusion in the performing arts. One Hundred Percent: The Burden of Promise We’re back at Barons Court today. Not to see the tennis (though it is that time of year), but to see One Hundred Percent, […]
A first-time visit to Kenwood House turns into an unexpectedly rich day out, combining historic architecture, a world-class art collection, and Hampstead’s landscape history A Day Out at Kenwood House A recent bank holiday brought the perfect excuse for a day out, and Kenwood House did not disappoint. In fact, it turned into such a […]
In Hamstrung, George Rennie gives voice to Hamlet’s most famous skull, transforming Yorick into a lively, tragicomic narrator of his own tale. In Purgatory with a Player: The Clever Conceit of Hamstrung In Hamstrung, George Rennie reclaims Yorick (the long-dead fool of Hamlet fame) as something more than a grim punchline or discarded skull. With […]
