Arts Interviews | Edie Edmundson
Puppetry is having a bit of a renaissance at the moment thanks to shows like War Horse
Great Expectations | A worthy adaptation
Christian Burgess delivers a no frills production of Great Expectations superbly carried by convincing performances and slick directing
The Nutcracker | London's Christmas countdown has begun
The Nutcracker is on at the Royal Opera House until 12th January 2017.
Manon Lescaut raises some questions
Manon Lescaut is on at the Royal Opera House until 12th December 2016
Time for a fresh approach to club drugs
The success of the #saveourculture campaign has led to the reopening of fabric, but has an opportunity been missed to rationalise the approach to drug-related harm in clubs?
The Children is a triumph of acting and staging
The Children is on at the Jerwood Theatre (Royal Court Theatre) until 14th February 2017
King Lear is a hit and miss at the Barbican
King Lear is on at the Barbican until 23rd December 2016
Garside’s window-smashing soundtrack
Punk music, and its offshoots, has always retained a continuing theme of protest against society’s wrongs. Here are some of my favourites.
Breaking the walls of the 'pre-invented world'
art is a way of speaking up
We, the people | The Hamilton cast speak out
Theatre is special but Trump is wrong, theatre is not safe. Theatre Can't be safe
Albert Camus | The Rebel
The Rebel is the punctuation mark to 19th and early 20th century philosophy
James Joyce | Dubliners
Joyce lets us sink into those delicate in-between emotions of melancholy.