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  • The Japanese House exhibition at the Barbican review ***

    The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 Barbican Art Gallery, 27th March 2017 Bit of a mixed bag/curate’s egg here. There are some undeniably interesting insights in this exhibition but I was less enamoured of the set piece external and internal installations accommodated within the fabric of the Barbican’s…

  • Ugly Lies the Bone at the National Theatre review ****

    Ugly Lies the Bone National Theatre, 28th March 2017 Tricky one this. It was by no means perfect, a little too thinly drawn for me, but there was so much to applaud that I think it worthy of a strong positive review. The playwright, Lindsay Ferrentino is entirely new to…

  • Balm in Gilead at the Guildhall School review ***

    Balm in Gilead Silk Street Theatre, 27th March 2017 Less a review, more a plug for the terrific music, drama and opera on offer to you, the London public, from the massively talented students (and teachers) at the Guildhall School on the Barbican site. There’s all manner of free stuff…

  • Graduation – film review *****

    Graduation, 12th April 2017 I haven’t seen too many films at the cinema this year and have so far resisted the temptation to offer up an opinion on any of them, in large part because they had been and gone before I kicked off this blog. (For what it’s worth…

  • Wolfgang Tillmans at Tate Modern review ****

    Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 Tate Modern, 9th March 2017 Oh my giddy aunt. What to make of this. I am slowly clambering my way up the shaky but intriguing edifice that is contemporary art. I have a rough map in my head but still have a long way to go and…

  • Austentatious at Leicester Square Theatre review ****

    Austentatious Leicester Square Theatre, 26th February 2017 So I am guessing that a good number of people have already stumbled across the comedy joy that this improvisatory troupe bring. So I’ll get to the point. The premise is simple. Take some suggestions from the audience for daft, “unpublished” Jane Austen…

  • Tamburlaine at the Arcola Theatre review ***

    Tamburlaine Arcola Theatre, 6th April 2017 In many ways this was a brave piece of theatre. Tamburlaine, in two parts, was Christopher Marlowe’s first performed solo play, written in his early 20s, and which changed the course of English drama and massively influenced all the big boys of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama…

  • The American Dream at the British Museum review ****

    The American Dream: pop to the present British Museum, 31st March 2017 So where can you see a stunning survey of pretty much all the major artists, across all the major movements of modern and contemporary art, in the US over the last seven or so decades. The British Museum…

  • Stewart Lee: Content Provider review *****

    Stewart Lee: Content Provider G Live Guildford, 10th March 2017 There are only a few stand up comedians I would pay money to see (or even go for free for that matter). The vast majority of the observational comedy types off the telly cannot sustainably make me laugh or think…

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Young Vic review ****

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Young Vic Theatre, 29th March 2017 Earthy. That pretty much sums it up. I don’t generally hunt out productions of the Dream. It isn’t my favourite Shakespeare and I am not sure what surprises cast and director can generally bring to the table. However once again…