How would you define addiction? Does it always have to involve self harm? These are the questions the new Science Gallery’s first exhibition, Hooked, asks. Visitors make their way through several small spaces and rooms, introduced to a new addiction….
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We Need To Talk – Holly St Clair
Is chivalry dead in today’s modern dating world? I don’t think so. Okay, dating apps like Tinder and the act of swiping right isn’t exactly the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, more like a bad rom-com. In fact, Aziz Ansari’s…
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Weeping Window – Paul Cummins and Tom Piper
You can only imagine how long it took to place each and every poppy carefully in it’s place. The sheer scale and size of the installation puts into perspective the number of lives lost during the First World War. Yet…
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See The Bates Motel at Royal Academy of Arts
The Bates Motel from Alfred Hitchcock’s 60’s classic, Psycho, has seemingly been dropped from the sky into the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts. Cornelia Parker’s Transitional Objects (PsychoBarn), is based on The Bates Motel, while Hitchcock’s takes inspiration…
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My Favourite Artwork from Venice Biennale 2019
Visiting the world’s biggest art festival can be overwhelming. Held across multiple locations, two of which are huge spaces, you need at least two days to see everything. Here are the highlights of my visit to Venice Biennale 2019.
Read MoreA Very Very Very Dark Matter Review – Bridge Theatre
More of the same humour and darkness fromMartin McDonagh I never tire of watching In Bruges. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri is one of my favourite films of this year. Lieutenant of Inishmore was worth the hype (at least what…
Read MoreMacbeth Review – Barbican Centre
Eccelston and Cusack give outstanding performances in a fast moving production of Macbeth. With any staging of a Shakespeare play, you hope it offers something unique, but still true to the original. Burned by Emma Rice’s adaptation of Romeo and…
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Wolf Review, Soho Theatre – Lewis Doherty
No description of Wolf will prepare you for what to expect. I sat there stunned, with a massive grin on my face for an hour. What did I just watch?! Lewis Doherty plays 30 hilarious characters including Detective Patrick ‘Nobody…
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Dinomania Review At New Diorama Theatre – Kandinsky
Fast, furious, cleverly inventive, comedically dramatic. And that’s just the live score on the piano. Dinomania follows the life of amateur Geologist Gideon Martell when he discovers a huge tooth and possibly the existence of dinosaurs. What follows next is…
Read More The Talented Mr. Ripley Review At The Vaults – The Faction
“Ever get the feeling like you’re being watched? Or being followed?” asks Tom Ripley to the audience at the opening. From the start, Tom seems nervous. And that’s before any of the drama has unfolded. Tom Ripley has a chance…
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Pinter at the Pinter 3 – Landscape / A Kind of Alaska / Monologue review
I’ll admit, I bought the ticket just to see Lee Evans. I’m a huge fan of his stand up and the chance to see him on stage again was too good an opportunity to miss. It’s a bonus the short…
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