This is a production that embraces the surreal, and observes the details of everyday life in loving detail.
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Theater Review: Ship of Fools at Theatre 503 in London
Albrecht Durer in his woodcuts crammed a forest of allegorical detail. Andrew Bovell fills his stage with a thicket of ideas and comparisons.
Read More »How China is Starting to Turn Green
"If there is no pressure from the US on greenhouse gases, China is not going to put pressure on itself."
Read More »Theater Review: Stars in the Morning Sky at the Union, London
The 'working women' survive with a mixture of hard-headed calculation, mad dreams, fairy tales that they half-believe, and pure panic.
Read More »Theater Review: Tuesdays! The Bar Where Everyone Knows Your Shame! at the Albany (London)
What will get young audiences through the doors? On this evidence, pure, unadulterated, unpretentious fun.
Read More »Exhibition Review: Good Impressions, Image and Authority in Medieval Seals, at the British Museum
A seal's imagery would be "read" just as though it were text.
Read More »Theater Review: Blasted at the Soho Theatre, London
A decade on, Kane’s play, in this production, is even more powerful than when it was written.
Read More »Theater Review: All Wear Bowlers at the Barbican, London
If you delight in the traditional game of "spot the avant-garde reference", then you'll find your every competitive desire satisfied.
Read More »Medea Was Not A Child-Killer
Euripides was paid five talents for an early piece of what turned out to be hugely effective propaganda.
Read More »Exhibition Review – London: A Life in Maps at the British Library
The recording of the lines on a map marking streets and buildings might seem mechanical, but it is in fact an intensely political, contested process.
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