David Nice
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![Running on soul: Pamela Nomvete as Faye, the troubled union rep](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Pamela%20Nomvete%20in%20SKELETON%20CREW%20-%20Donmar%20Warehouse%20-%20photo%20by%20Helen%20Murray_.jpg?itok=n-GTqWWC)
For a long stretch of its first half,...
![Murder most confusing: Ayse (Yasemin Kay Allen), Mehmet (Ethan Kai) and Inspector Ikmen (Haluk Bilginer)](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Turkish%20MAIN.jpg?itok=dRq8IqHf)
Any show making its debut in the midst of Wimbledon and the Euro-football, plus a spectacular performance by Lewis Hamilton at Silverstone, is...
![A haunted man: Robert Glenister as Tony Conroy](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Glenister%20MAIN%20copy.jpg?itok=6fZjDdHU)
Showing over four consecutive nights, Night Caller is a stripped-down psychological...
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Joe Goddard’s torrent of creativity rarely fails to amaze. As well as eight albums as a crucial part of Hot Chip, he has made two in the 2 Bears...
![Angelic Upstarts at the time of 'Teenage Warning's' release. Second left: Mensi](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Angelic%20Upstarts_header_1000.jpg?itok=1v-5aO4q)
NME’s Paul Morley reviewed Angelic Upstarts’ debut album, the newly reissued Teenage Warning, in August 1979....
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It’s often said that nobody mythologised Billie Holiday like Billie Holiday. I’m not so sure.
In this fine, clear-eyed...
![Katharina Kastening: 'the underlying message regarding the danger in female stereotyping is one that unfortunately persists in our societies'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Carmen%201.jpeg?itok=Dat42NmJ)
Peter Brook's reimagining of Bizet's Carmen condenses the scale of the original into a more intimate theatrical experience. The score has...
![Kiiōtō's 'As Dust we Rise': Marianne Faithfull seems to be an unacknowledged presence](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Kii%C5%8Dt%C5%8D%20-%20As%20Dust%20We%20Rise.jpg?itok=LHVgNU9o)
As Dust we Rise ends with “Quilt,” a percussion-driven lamentation bringing to mind the New Orleans stylings of Dr. John. The album...
![A barn owl tracks a field mouse](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Oak%20owl.jpg?itok=SSl9kPEF)
On one level, Heart of an Oak is the most spectacular nature film you are ever likely to see. The camera glides over a forest before...
![Jack Wolfe and Cassie Levy in Next to Normal - at least one of them is keeping it real](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Next%20To%20Normal%20Jack%20Wolfe%20and%20Caissie%20Levy.jpg?itok=2AJfSPF3)
We open on one of those suburban American families we know so well from Eighties and Nineties sitcoms - they’re not quite Homer,...