FAITH HEALER

Brian Friel’s towering quartet of monologues is given powerful, persuasive voice by Michael Sheen in the title role of the dissembling faith healer, with
intelligent support by Indira Varma and David Threlfall.

FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2020

This 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.

FONDATION MAEGHT

Fondation 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.

KEEPING IT REAL (PÉRIL SUR LA VILLE)

The 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.

SPLENDID ISOLATION: LOCKDOWN DRAMA

New times call for new ways of thinking, especially within the hard-pressed creative industries struggling to keep the thrill of live performance alive.

BLACK LIVES DO MATTER

Two 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.

THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT FOR FREELANCE ARTISTS

Suffering for your art is one thing but freelance artists on variable, unpredictable incomes are finding the current situation unbearably bleak.

OPERATION ELSEWHERE

The 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.

CHERISH THE ARTISTS TOO

Lyn Gardner asks, ” What is theatre’s most precious resource?” and answers it in a probing article in The Stage.

LA MÉNAGERIE DE VERRE (THE GLASS MENAGERIE)

Tennessee Williams’s early masterpiece is brought heartbreakingly to life by a remarkable central performance by one of the great actors of our day.