Arts
‘Lost’ Wainwright artwork rediscovered
A ‘lost’ artwork drawn by fell-walking legend Alfred Wainwright when he was just 15 has been rediscovered.
By Alan Cleaver | Arts, Notebook | Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at 10:47 am
Rainbow’s End
It’s a terrible old cliche that it takes a star to play a star – but in the case of Judy Garland there never has been and never will be a star big enough to fill her tiny red shoes. There is another way in, though, and during the course of Peter Quilter’s play with songs End of the Rainbow (chronicling the last weeks of Garland’s life) the amazing Tracie Bennett finds it.
By Edward Seckerson | Arts | Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at 10:31 am
Culture Club: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
This week’s Culture Club focuses on the seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Fighting out of the Fringes: Creating an ensemble, together.
On Sundays, even on the dark and damp Sundays of this time of year, at the Actors Centre in Covent Garden we try and work out what it means to be a theatre ensemble. This aim can often be frustrated by a lack of cash. Not letting this simple matter defeat us we give up our time, we ask actors to give up their time and we rely on the kindness of the Actors Centre for space and support, all without pay.
Adriana sensitively exhumed
Kaufmann and Gheorghiu were not the only star attractions of this early and clearly expensive Christmas gift from the Royal Opera. Cilea’s Frenchified melodrama hasn’t been seen in the house since 1906 and the dusty wing space of Charles Edwards’ extraordinary set looked like it might actually have been excavated from the theatre as it [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts | Friday, 19 November 2010 at 10:51 am
Blinding performances: all eyes out on-stage
Last week I went to see Complicite’s Shun-kin, a play which (spoiler alert!) features two fairly nasty incidents of blinding. One is an act of spite; the second, an ultimate demonstration of love, devotion and self-sacrifice. It’s also pretty squirm-inducing: there are needles involved. Wriggling around in my seat, I felt this wasn’t the first time I’d been tempted to cover my eyes to avoid seeing another’s popped out on-stage.
By Holly Williams | Arts | Wednesday, 17 November 2010 at 10:42 am
Culture Club: The Kids are All Right
This week’s Culture Club focuses on Lisa Cholodenko’s witty Californian comedy ’The Kids are All Right’.
In The Independent on Sunday, our film critic Jonathan Romney suggested that, contrary to many modern films, ‘The Kids Are All Right’ ventures into a kind of intelligent feel-good humour, with the audience not deriving comedy from the fundamental awfulness of its characters for [...]
Fighting out of the Fringes: When can you call yourself a playwright?
“You willy-wally wobbly words…” says Major Robbie Ross in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good as he berates Ralph Clark, a young Second Lieutenant attempting to put on a play. But this could easily be a cry against a playwright.
Culture Club: Let Me In
This week’s Culture Club focuses on Let Me In – the American remake of acclaimed Swedish vampire movie Let The Right One In.
LA’s disgraceful attempt to keep Jamie Oliver out of its schools
The city’s real reason for trying to keep Jamie Oliver out of its schools is very simple: the city is too ashamed to allow America’s TV-watching public to see the deep-fried horrors it inflicts daily upon the children in its care
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 8 November 2010 at 4:06 am
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