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Globe to Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's GlobeTuesday, 01 May 2012A comedy of alienation, estrangement, and magical metamorphosis – if ever there was a Shakespeare play made for the linguistic transfigurations of the Globe to Globe season it’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Unmoored from the familiar English text and... Read more... |
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary ArtsMonday, 28 November 2011In his catalogue essay, Peter Osborne discusses the meaning of epithets such as “new” and “contemporary” when applied to current art, yet no one in this year’s New Contemporaries seems to be striving to make work that is “new”, “different”, “radical... Read more... |
MotherTuesday, 24 August 2010Director Bong Joon-ho watched Psycho as he prepared his latest film, one of the most discomfiting visions of mother-love since Norman Bates last ran a motel. There is Hitchcockian perversity, too, in Bong’s casting of Kim Hye-ja, an iconic Korean... Read more... |
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