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Category: Empire

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  Plenty at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ****

  Plenty Chichester Festival Theatre, 27th June 2019 Sir David Hare has written a fair few plays. Important plays. As well as TV screenplays and film scripts. I’ve only seen a handful but it’s not difficult to work out why the old boy is so important. Even if some would suggest…

  August 23, 2019
• Culture Empire Family Fiction Friendship History Identity London Love Novel Race Theatre TV

  Small Island at the National Theatre review *****

  Small Island National Theatre Olivier If you know Andrea Levy’s Small Island either from the original 2004 book, (not me I confess), or the 2009 Two part BBC adaptation with script from Sarah Williams and Paula Milne and starring the inimitable Ruth Wilson and Naomie Harris then you will know…

  May 6, 2019
• Ancient History Architecture art Culture Empire Exhibition History London Power War

  I Am Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum review ****

  I Am Ashurbanipal King of the World, King of Assyria  British Museum, 15th February 2019 Crikey. Those Assyrians had a way with reliefs carved in gypsum/alabaster. Even if it was primarily all in the service of terrifying aggrandisement. The King hunting, the King and his soldiers slaying his enemies, the…

  March 7, 2019