Escaped Alone, Royal Court Theatre, 2016
Afternoon tea and apocalyptic catastrophe: in Caryl Churchill’s latest play, Escaped Alone, her trademark absurdity is stretched to ambitious heights. Running just over the course of 50 minutes, the play […]
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Painting the Modern Garden
As 100mph storms engulf a dark, wintry Britain, the Royal Academy of Arts brings a timely form of escapism. Its latest exhibition, ‘Painting the Modern Garden’, transports us to the […]
Michael Craig-Martin: Technology and Transience
In his 1964 book Understanding Media, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan noted how ‘technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation’. This notion became […]
Red Velvet, Garrick Theatre, 2016
Following the recent backlash over the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations, this revival of Red Velvet was appropriately timed. First staged at the Tricycle Theatre in 2012, Lolita Chakrabarti’s […]
Ai Weiwei: Artist and Activist
It sounds almost reductive to refer to Ai Weiwei as an ‘artist’. Outspoken humanitarian and political dissident, he’s just as much celebrated as an icon of social and international freedom […]
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