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REVIEW: The Big Chill – A Festival For All Senses
After my arrival on Friday night, my first point of interest was the Art Trail. At first I thought it…
Two Peas in a Pod - Mike Leigh & Alfred Hitchcock
When Mike Leigh first uttered his expletives against Alfred Hitchcock`s Frenzy at the 2006 London Film Festival seminar on London…
THEATRE REVIEW: Timon of Athens (Globe Theatre)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company refer to some of the Bard’s minor works as ‘hardly crap at all’ and reviewers and…
THEATRE REVIEW: Let there be love in (The Tricycle)
It is often lazily said that, whilst the Victorians could not bring themselves to acknowledge sex, they were quite happy…
THEATRE REVIEW: A Winter's Tale (The Globe)
A Winter’s Tale is a strange play. It is a comedy in that it ends with a wedding but the…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: A date with London’s dead
Arts Hub reviewer Rebecca Pohancenik goes to meet the city’s former inhabitants at the Wellcome Collection’s Skeletons: London’s buried bones.
COLUMN: Talking about the e-book
Everyone is talking about the e-book reader. Most are ranting about it, some are cautiously praising it, a brave few…
Apprenticed to a Future: a new way into the creative sector?
The Draft Apprenticeships Bill, recently launched, is nothing if not ambitious. The Bill aims to ‘establish a statutory basis for…
Action for Children's Arts launches Manifesto
Action for Children’s Arts, the UK's umbrella body on behalf of all arts organizations providing arts for and working with…
REVIEW: Loveparade Dortmund Germany
The Loveparade? In Dortmund?? I couldn’t believe it when I learnt about two years ago that the legendary yearly rave…