The Old Vic: In Camera Ah, the joy of live performance! Well, not exactly live, perhaps, but through a single camera focus the Old Vic’s In Camera series is effectively bringing culture-starved audiences as close to that much-missed experience as is humanly possible. As the Zoom technology ticks towards zero, one has a distinct sense of […]
Read More FAITH HEALERThis major international festival has escaped the plague of Covid 19. Festival Photo La Gacilly is open-air, brimming with green energy, free to all and full of images that remain long in the memory and the conscience.
Read More FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2020Fondation Marguerite and Aimé Maeght is one of the world’s great private collections of modern art, standing tall among the medieval hilltop towns and vineyards of Provence.
Read More FONDATION MAEGHTThe residents of Marseille’s run-down Saint-Mauront neighbourhood are used to being called ‘scum’ but they eloquently tell their own story to one of their own – film maker Philippe Pujol.
Read More KEEPING IT REAL (PÉRIL SUR LA VILLE)New times call for new ways of thinking, especially within the hard-pressed creative industries struggling to keep the thrill of live performance alive.
Read More SPLENDID ISOLATION: LOCKDOWN DRAMATwo guest writers – Belfast International Arts Festival director Richard Wakely and actress/university professor Josette Bushell-Mingo – reflect on the burning issue of today: Black Lives Matter.
Read More BLACK LIVES DO MATTERSuffering for your art is one thing but freelance artists on variable, unpredictable incomes are finding the current situation unbearably bleak.
Read More THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT FOR FREELANCE ARTISTSThe theatre community is finding inventive new ways of bringing live performance into people’s homes, like Big Telly’s madcap green screen journey back to ancient mythology.
Read More OPERATION ELSEWHERELyn Gardner asks, ” What is theatre’s most precious resource?” and answers it in a probing article in The Stage.
Read More CHERISH THE ARTISTS TOOTennessee Williams’s early masterpiece is brought heartbreakingly to life by a remarkable central performance by one of the great actors of our day.
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