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WEBHugh Barnes Saturday, 28 September 2024. It’s hard not to review the Israeli occupation of Palestine when writing about The Teacher. The political context of this first feature by British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi, who also wrote the screenplay, is so thoroughly appalling that it sometimes overshadows the TV-style melodrama onscreen.
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WEB5 days ago · Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jewel thief. Adam Sweeting Saturday, 05 October 2024. If you’re looking for an advertisement for how crime doesn’t pay, Joan will do very nicely. Written by Anna Symon, this six-part series is based on the memoirs of real-life jewel thief Joan Hannington, whose light-fingered ...
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · The Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary. British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes …
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WEBSarah Kent Wednesday, 25 September 2024. Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual puns, a play on the laws of nature. On the Table, 1970 (pictured below right), for instance, appears to defy gravity. Four buckets filled with water stand on a table; so far so ordinary.
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WEBNightsleeper, BBC One review - strangers on a runaway train. Adam Sweeting Friday, 20 September 2024. “Let the train take the strain”, as the old advertising slogan urged us. The train in this six-part drama has to soak up a whole world of strain, as it’s taken over by cyber-hijackers who demand a huge ransom before they’ll consider ...
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WEBDec 28, 2021 · Despite its much delayed start, 2021 was a great year for the visual arts, and institutions and artists alike showed their resilience in agile and sensitive responses to unprecedented conditions. The plastic arts took on a new significance as people adjusted to life without human touch; equally, the experience of viewing art online revealed the extent to which tactile qualities are experienced ...
The Snowmaiden, English Touring Opera review – a rich harvest …
WEBSep 30, 2024 · Yet its mythic, and exotic, aspects make The Snowmaiden (Snegurochka in the original Russian) a tricky proposition for a touring company on a modest budget who must run a tight, mobile ship with a pretty minimal crew. Occasionally, the demands of the piece do stretch the resources director Olivia Fuchs has at her disposal.
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WEBSep 10, 2024 · Ballet Nights #006, Cadogan Hall review - a mixed bag of excellence. It’s exactly a year since Ballet Nights, the self-styled taster platform for dance, started offering chirpily compered evenings of ballet and contemporary at venues where you'd least expect to find them. A first anniversary is already an achievement; to have arrived there ...
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WEBOct 1, 2024 · Album: Lady Gaga - Harlequin. Thomas H Green Saturday, 28 September 2024. Lady Gaga has made clear this is not her official new artist album. It’s a side project, inspired by Harley Quinn, the nom-de-chaos of the Arkham Asylum inmate she plays in Todd Phillips’ much-anticipated sequel Joker: Folie à …