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Naturally 7 @ Barbican Centre
Surprisingly, my husband manages to fit in a job other than me. He works for AEG, proud owner of the O2 and other impressively echoey …
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Hamlet @ Young Vic
Ian Rickson‘s new Hamlet at the Young Vic contained a lot of firsts for me. It was the first time I’ve been …
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Gerhard Richter @ Tate Modern
It was a bit of a duty trip. I was suffering a Halloween party hangover and the afternoon was not unpleasantly sliding into a sloth-marathon …
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The Great Gatsby
Reading a really famous book for the first time is a strange experience.
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The Centaur and the Animal @ Sadlers Wells
I didn’t have many expectations about The Centaur and The Animal. What is one supposed to expect from a show that purports to combine …
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Trust Agents
Disoriented? Intrigued? You’ve just gatejumped.
As soon as you read this URL in the International Journal of Advertising, and typed it …
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La Bête @ Comedy Theatre
I was in need of a giggle.
Sure, Michael Attenborough’s production of Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida had its moments of bleak, …
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Gifford’s Circus
I’ve never been the most acrobatic of Blondes. By the age of thirteen my limbs were already outstripping my nervous system, and my favourite part …
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Gaza/Guernica @ Soho Theatre
There are people like me, who love going to the theatre, thinking and writing about theatre, and have dabbled as a practitioner in the past. …
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Mark Morris Dance Group @ Royal Opera House
There are some songs you cannot listen to without dancing. Go on, I challenge you: any MJ. The Killers’s Human. Jimi’s All …
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Sweet Tooth
This seems the exact thing to ease us into evening.
It simply demands a whiskey sour and a big slice of Battenburg. But before …
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Krystle Warren @ Soho Theatre
As those who read my previous post might suspect, I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity in the past couple of weeks. It all started …
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The Frick Collection
I know I’m a product of Limeyland, through and through. The quivering, purse-lipped, rose-pink prejudices and predelictions of Albion striate my Dover-chalk-white flesh like a …
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Being There
Some lines of poetry just refuse to give up their juju. However over-quoted they are, however often rid of context and subtlety, however relentlessly pushed …
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Manuel Guillén
Watching Manuel Guillén play Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E Minor Op.20 is like watching Danny DeVito paint a Picasso. Jiggling jowled, prodigally paunched …