Posts in category Arts

Russia is beautiful and vast. But with its beauty comes a troubled past and present – some of it wonderful, but a lot of it …

I am never disappointed by the Scandinavians’ ability to deliver gripping and compulsive thrillers for the big and small screens. And now Sofi Oksanen has …

I’m not talking about the angst-ridden Bristolian teens….I bet you wish I was right?! So everything used to be much simpler, discrete and easily categorised …

Crime and Punishment is daunting. Its author’s name is difficult to pronounce and spell. It is long and dark and it was written long ago …

The Nabokov Arts Club: Fable – a two-night one-off event held at the Battersea Arts Club – had all the ingredients for a weird and …

The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company is the real deal. I shamefully never got to any of the student productions at my native Imperial College, so …

What starts off as a play you think will predominantly explore the extremes to which political correctness is taken – sometimes creating just the awkwardness …

The Pitchfork Disney: violence meets childhood reverie and memory.  Written in 1991, Philip Ridley’s graphic and beautiful script is gory, frightening and funny in a …

Uncle Len is on his deathbed, surrounded by Ken, Dooren, Maureen and Barry. East End grudges and West Ham football anthems hang in the air …

I have only known the Donmar Warehouse and its productions – can they do no wrong? – through the eyes of Michael Grandage. With a …