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Summer Exhibition, Translations and Ocean’s 8
On my July MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Exhibition Grayson Perry curates a colourful and inclusive Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Film Girl power in the all-female reboot Ocean’s 8 Theatre Brian Friel’s Translations at the National Theatre is a tender epic Commuter corner Anuradha Roy’s All … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged All the Lives We Never Lived, anne hathaway, Anuradha Roy, art, banksy, best, book, brian friel, cate blanchett, commute, commuter, david hockney, exhibition, fiction, film, grayson perry, grenfell, heist, july, london, met gala, moveto, moveto town and country magazine, movie, national theatre, novel, oceans 8, painting, play, read, review, rihanna, royal academy, sandra bullock, summer, summer exhibition, theatre, translations, ukip, visit london
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Clarion, Arcola Theatre
“Fury Over Sharia Law For Toddlers!” No, not a prime example of spoof headline generator Daily Mail-o-matic, but the latest piece of fantastical scaremongering from the Clarion, a 125-year-old (semi-)fictional rag that’s upped sales by splashing on immigration every day … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged arcola theatre, clare higgins, clarion, columnist, daily express, daily mail, drama, election, evening standard, extremist, family values, fleet street, front page, glamour model, great britain, greg hicks, guardian, headline, immigration, london, Mark Jagasia, media, news, newspaper, paper, play, politics, review, richard bean, satire, sharia law, showbiz, tabloid, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, ukip
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Flawed but urgent look at British Islam
Actor-turned-playwright John Hollingworth’s debut isn’t so much ripped from the headlines as startlingly prescient. Developed four years before the Paris attacks and Jihadi John’s gruesome antics, Multitudes tackles immigration, Islamic conversion and multicultural discord with a passion that fires up … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged bradford, community, conservative, conversion, drama, east is east, ham and high, hampstead, hampstead and highgate express, immigration, Indhu Rubasingham, is, isis, islam, islamic state, jihadi john, london, multicultural, multitudes, newsnight, nigel farage, north london, pakistan, paris, party conference, play, political, religion, review, spin doctor, syria, the thick of it, theatre, tory, tricycle theatre, ukip
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Strictly Speaking: Week 8
It’s Blackpool Week on Strictly, otherwise known as Multiple Comebacks And Rampant Score Inflation Week! For the uninitiated, the current exchange rate is about 1:1.2, meaning up here Donny would be scoring 12s and spontaneously combusting, BABY. Fortunately, the judges did … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged andy murray, anton du beke, argentine tango, ballroom, bbc, blackpool, celebrity, christmas, claudia winkleman, competition, dance, dance today, dancesport, dancing, fred astaire, ginger rogers, gladiator, goldfinger, judge, judy murray, len goodman, magazine, mary poppins, mcbusted, moulin rouge, paso doble, pixie lott, rule britannia, samba, scd, shirley bassey, simon webbe, spice girls, strictly, strictly come dancing, sunetra sarker, the hunger games, tower ballroom, tv, ukip, viennese waltz, white christmas, zoe ball
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Strictly Speaking: Week 2
Week 2 of Strictly, and the judges have already taken leave of their senses. It’s going to be a long series. The second performance show – the one which leads to an elimination, and in which, therefore, the scoring is … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ballroom, baywatch, bbc, blog, charleston, claudia winkleman, dance, dance today, dancing, disney, elimination, facebook, film, frozen, gone girl, great british bake off, gregg wallace, happy days, jake wood, jennifer gibney, judge, judy murray, latin, let it go, m and s, miss america, movie, one direction, recap, review, rock n roll, salsa, scd, score, scott mills, so you think you can dance, spice girls, strictly, strictly come dancing, tess daly, tv, ukip
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Rudy’s Rare Records
Following a deluge of film-to-stage transfers, Rudy’s Rare Records takes a more unusual route from Radio 4 sitcom to semi-musical theatre. The cosy formula remains intact – creaking plot mechanics more apparent in a meandering two and a half hours … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged bbc, birmingham, comedy, dad, drama, family, father, hackney, hackney empire, immigrant, immigration, jamaica, lenny henry, london, multicultural, music, musical, play, race, racist, radio 4, record, reggae, review, rudys rare records, sing, sitcom, son, song, soul, steptoe and son, theatre, ukip
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Lost in translation
Thirty years ago, Andy Warhol gathered together 300,000 disparate possessions in cardboard boxes, creating a makeshift time capsule for the edification of future generations. There is another time capsule of sorts playing at Richmond Theatre, where John Godber’s revival of … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged andy warhol, april in paris, comedy, competition, cost of living crisis, drama, eiffel tower, europe, european, ferry, france, groundhog day, holiday, housing market, hull, john godber, magazine, nigel farage, paris, play, review, richmond theatre, romcom, the wizard of oz, theatre, time capsule, travel, ukip, unemployment, whos afraid of virginia woolf, win
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Past mortem
We need narrative. It is our way of making sense of events, whether a minor inconvenience reshaped into a witty anecdote, a seemingly random occurrence later understood as a pivotal turning point, or a comforting explanation for a horrifying, senseless … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, anders breivik, chimerica, london, play, review, revolution, soho theatre, theatre, there has possibly been an incident, tiananmen square, ukip
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