Half full or half empty? Square Moon Theatre’s potted version of Voltaire’s potted yet potent satire, Candide brims with good ideas, ingenious storytelling and skips along picaresquely. The cast of 4 create and populate a fantastical world using bags full of cleverly suggestive props, voices, …
If you’ve been past the Bow Street entrance to the Royal Opera House lately you’ll have seen Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson smouldering gingerly in a full face poster shot, stating: Meet Ed. Fact: When he’s dancing, pound for pound, he’s stronger than a …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th July 1968: The Hayward art gallery on the South Bank is opened by the Queen. Tuesday – 10th July 1958: Britain’s first parking meters are installed in Mayfair. Soon there would be 625 of them in the …
We’ve all considered it at some point in our lives: we are tired of being ruled by our possessions… we wish we could live less material lives… wouldn’t it be great to just chuck it all in and live in a fridge with nothing but …
Who would have thought it, but hey look! The London International Mime Festival is back – for the 29th time. Mime is perhaps the wrong word for what looks like a very experimental festival – there is a distinct lack of white painted faces, gloves …
Almost anyone who grew up the UK will have memories, fond or otherwise, of the school Nativity play. Girls would fight over the sparkly angel outfits, boys would cause havoc and actual bodily harm with the shepherds’ staffs and the fat kid with glasses who …
It’s a kid-friendly crawl this weekend, by which we mean there’s lots of stuff to see and do that would please children and the perpetually nostalgic. Get your scarf, woolly hat and mittens and go out to play. Until 3 December Toys@Oxo 2006 is the …
Ok, we think it’s safe to come out now, we think they’ve all gone. Having so many of them congregate in the one place was always going to be a problem. Where were the police when we needed them? But it’s all clear now. You …
Foremost there was Spinal Tap – the good natured and fucking hilarious jab at rock’s pomp and general ridiculousness that probably inspired as many bands as it took the piss out of. Better yet it ensured that anything of value was thereafter always turned up …
There are some parts of London that just don’t know when to stop. Greenwich has already got a shipload of interesting and beautiful things to visit such as the ruddy big Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Old Royal Naval College which is now the …
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