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WEB4 days ago · Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jewel thief. Adam Sweeting Saturday, 05 October 2024. If you’re looking for an advertisement for how crime doesn’t pay, Joan will do very nicely. Written by Anna Symon, this six-part series is based on the memoirs of real-life jewel thief Joan Hannington, whose light-fingered ...
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WEBOct 1, 2011 · Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly original centenary revival of O'Casey's tragi-comedy. Heather Neill Monday, 07 October 2024. "Captain" Jack Boyle is a fantasist, a mythmaker, a storyteller. He relishes an audience – usually his sidekick, Joxer. There is a theatricality in his part as written by O'Casey, but in ...
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WEBSarah Kent Wednesday, 25 September 2024. Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual puns, a play on the laws of nature. On the Table, 1970 (pictured below right), for instance, appears to defy gravity. Four buckets filled with water stand on a table; so far so ordinary.
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WEBThe Teacher review - tense West Bank drama. Hugh Barnes Saturday, 28 September 2024. It’s hard not to review the Israeli occupation of Palestine when writing about The Teacher. The political context of this first feature by British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi, who also wrote the screenplay, is so thoroughly appalling that it sometimes ...
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WEBGavin Jantjes: To Be Free, Whitechapel Gallery review - a sweet and sour response to horrific circumstances. Sarah Kent Wednesday, 19 June 2024. Born in Cape Town in 1948, Gavin Jantjes grew up under apartheid. He openly criticised the regime in his work and, forced into exile, was granted political asylum in Germany in 1973.
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WEBTim Cumming Thursday, 03 October 2024. The first K-Music festival landed in London for than a decade ago, and has brought an eclectic range of bands and musicians from Korea to the stages of the capital, whether that’s the sorrowful storytelling tradition of Pansori, the sonic attack of bands like Jambinai or Black String, who return this ...
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WEBSep 10, 2024 · Nobodaddy, Teaċ Daṁsa, Dublin Theatre Festival review - supernatural song and dance odyssey. David Nice Thursday, 03 October 2024. Nobodaddy, taking its title from Blake’s violent dark-god “Father of Jealousy”, is much more than a dance piece, and Michael Keegan-Dolan, whose company was formerly known as Fabulous Beast, is …
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern - adolescent angst ...
WEB3 days ago · Like an angry teenager rejecting everything his parents stand for, American artist Mike Kelley embraced everything most despised by the art world – from popular culture to crafts, and occultism to catholicism – to create what he ironically called “blue collar minimalism”. “An adolescent,” he declared, “is a dysfunctional adult and art is a dysfunctional reality”.
First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Adrien …
WEB1 day ago · The American dramatist on bringing 'The Fear of 13', and its Oscar-winning lead, to the Donmar. by Lindsey Ferrentino Friday, 11 October 2024. Share. No holds barred: Adrien Brody (left) heads the cast of 'The Fear of 13' Images - Manuel Harlan. I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my …