Poet in the City: Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer
2011’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer, one of Scandinavia’s best loved poets. The 80-year-old Swede suffered a devastating stroke in 1990 …
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DNA at the Unicorn Theatre
If you commit a crime and leave your DNA all over the place, they’ll get you. And even if you don’t commit a crime they …
Enda Walsh’s Misterman
God, redemption, religion, the forces of good and evil. It is hard to tackle these none too light topics in a manner which doesn’t become …
Damien Hirst: A Retrospective
Damien Hirst’s retrospective at the Tate Modern was not on my list of things to see. His notoriety and abundance in the media made me …
A Touch of Class from the BBC
I often hear a lot of people bemoan the state of television programming today, there are claims that T.V has sunk to levels of vapid …
The Eifman Ballet’s Eugene Onegin at the London Coliseum
On Good Friday at the Coliseum I got to live all the Russian novels I have loved and devoured: the Eifman Ballet’s Eugene Onegin – …
To Feed The Beast
I am an addict. Yes, an addict. It’s been said that the first step to recovery is the realization and admittance of the problem, so…here …
Belka Production’s A Warsaw Melody
Following on from Purge, Sofi Oksanen’s exploration of the aftershocks of Soviet rule in Estonia, Studio Two at the Arcola Theatre gives us another U.S.S.R. …
The Duchess of Malfi at The Old Vic
An attractive Duchess is widowed and prevented from re-marrying by her brothers – one mad and incestuous, the other randy and clerical. But how can …
Nameless, Voiceless, Placeless
“The most powerful social sculpture of our times is made by the quiet performances of the homeless within the shelter provided by the entrances to …