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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Choose Your Own Documentary, Soho Theatre, 2014

May 31, 2014by relhayman Leave a comment

Few of our generation will have made it through childhood without reading from the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Sparking a phenomenon in children’s literature, the idea behind these stories […]

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Film

Finding Madrid

May 25, 2014by relhayman 1 Comment

Considering its status as a major European city, it is notable that Madrid evades a certain characterisation. Alongside the romance of Paris, the edginess of Berlin and the grandness of […]

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Travel

Relative Values, Harold Pinter Theatre, 2014

May 22, 2014by relhayman Leave a comment

‘Comedies of manners quickly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners’, declares the Jeevesian butler in Noel Coward’s Relative Values (1951). His words strike at the heart of […]

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Theatre

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs

May 18, 2014by relhayman Leave a comment

Wheelchair-bound and afflicted with illness, it is extraordinary that the last decade of Henri Matisse’s life was one of such creative vitality. The artist, widely regarded as the leading colourist […]

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Art

The Lure and Blur of Photorealism

May 13, 2014by relhayman Leave a comment

The 2013 portrait of Kate Middleton by Paul Emsley has an eerie effect on the eye. Hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, the image has a composition that is quite […]

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Art, Photography

The Austen Project Uncovered

May 1, 2014by relhayman 2 Comments

It was inevitable that The Austen Project would prove controversial. Since Harper Collins announced its initiative to refashion Jane Austen’s six novels for a modern audience, opinion has been polarised […]

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