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Preview: Arnold Wesker's RootsThursday, 19 September 2013
Arnold Wesker has a theory that plays require a certain DNA to endure. When thoughts turn to the 1950s and the revolution in British theatre which allowed ordinary working-class life up onto the stage, the name which always comes up is John Osborne... Read more... |
Brighton Comedy Festival, 4-20 OctoberTuesday, 17 September 2013
Tickets are now on sale for the Brighton Comedy Festival (4-20 October), which takes place in several venues in the South Coast town.As ever, the opening-night gala at the Brighton Dome is in aid of Sussex Beacon, and this year the event is hosted... Read more... |
'Always on, never alone'Sunday, 15 September 2013
While newspapers alternately praise and panic about the glittering world of the Internet, there is a generation of children who have grown up with 24/7 connectivity and a smart phone in their hand.Public discourse seems to revolve around "grooming"... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Australia: The oldest civilisation on showSunday, 08 September 2013
London is by now festooned with images showing the back-end of a horse surmounted by a black figure holding a gun across his chest. The man's head is a square black mask – a rectangular slit in it fails to reveal the expected eyes, instead taking us... Read more... |
PREVIEW - GhostsFriday, 06 September 2013
Revivals of Ibsen’s greatest plays come round thick and fast, and audiences may sometimes need an extra incentive to re-enter his world. A new staging of Ghosts supplies just such an inducement: a mouth-watering double dose of iconic Norwegians.This... Read more... |
Rhapsody! How to programme a Hollywood PromSunday, 25 August 2013
Fingers on buzzers: which piece of music at this year’s Proms boasts a percussion section including glockenspiel, xylophone, five pitches of cowbells, car horn, taxi horn, anvils, revolving door noise, smashing glass, bubble-wrap-popping, pistol-... Read more... |
theartsdesk preview: Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival, Katowice, PolandWednesday, 24 July 2013
The city of Katowice in Upper Silesia, Poland, was once an epic industrial hub on the western edge of the Soviet bloc. It was a gigantic centre for coal and steel that was awesome in scale. Those days are long gone yet it seems fitting that one of... Read more... |
10 Questions for Verbier Festival founder Martin EngstroemMonday, 01 July 2013
He might not be a household name, but Martin Engstroem is classical music’s man behind the curtain, a quiet but significant force in the industry for some 40 years. Although his career has seen Engstroem by turns as major artist agent and head of A... Read more... |
The TV Weekend: The Americans (ITV), Spying on Hitler's Army (Channel 4), Case Histories (BBC One)Sunday, 02 June 2013
Take a spoonful of paranoia thriller Arlington Road and shake'n'bake it with a dollop of Homeland and you'd have the bare skeleton of The Americans, tonight's new night import from the American FX channel on ITV. It's 1981, and in the midst of... Read more... |
Filming John AdamsTuesday, 05 March 2013
When I first approached John Adams with the idea of making a documentary about him, he gently but firmly turned me down: he had unequivocally bad memories of a film made a few years back, an uncomfortable ride with a director who thought nothing of... Read more... |
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