A Victorian transgender celebrity is a fitting and timely subject for this Brighton Festival premiere. Writer-director Neil Bartlett turns Stella’s scandalous life into a stark horror stor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:44AMMargaret Atwood’s Forties childhood was spent knocking around the Canadian backwoods with her forest entomologist, proto-ecologist dad, and it shows. Interviewed alongside her husband Grae…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:01AMWorld War One poems can become too familiar. So can the war itself, its five years of centenary commemorations so far suffering from excessive patriotism, a sense of uncomprehending disconne…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:38AMThe Kinks’ music deserves more than another jukebox musical. Joe Penhall has instead collaborated with Ray Davies on a musical about the pain and compromise musicians go through to fill th…
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