This retelling of the Cymbeline story opened – or at least appeared to open – with the entire cast contributing their tuppenceworth on the issue of what the story of Cymbeline actually w…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:51AMThere’s something in the water at the commissioning editors’ local, I think, resulting, of late, in a rash of rather good arts-n-culture biopics. This week, it was the turn of Roald Dahl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:37AMIn 1888, the extremely weird Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg, radical lefty son of a shipping merchant and a housemaid, wrote a play called Miss Julie about the conflict be…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34AMWho does the PR these days for Middle Eastern extremists? Whoever it is clearly wasn’t on board when the Palestine Liberation Front decided to whack the Achille Lauro. Or wasn’t aware th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00AMZach Braff’s debut theatre piece begins with Charlie (Mr Braff himself), in an empty house, swinging from a noosed extension lead, attempting to do the big FO while f(l)ailing to extinguis…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:53PMI have to confess I was about five minutes in to Dennis Kelly’s DNA last night, before I concluded, definitively, that I had seen it before. Four years ago, it was part of the Connections …
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