Remember Ben Wilson, the chap who paints minute artwork on discarded blobs of gum? The Royal Society of Chemistry, of all people, are trying to track him down with a commission. The RSC want Ben to depict the 117 chemical elements on his miniature medium. …
The Gods Weep. Photograph by Keith Pattison “I feel like my soul has been bathed in acid” says Colm (Jeremy Irons) near the beginning of Act Two. So will you after watching this new play by Dennis Kelly. Starting off with the clean crimes committed …
“I’ll tell you something, I know what you’re thinking.” Just like his most famous character, David Tennant has made an unlikely and heroic return from physical setbacks to claim centre stage with wit and verve as he finally reveals to the West End his interpretation …
Photo by Simon Annand Drawing on the antagonism between authorship, reputation and plagiarism, Marina Carr’s reworking of King Lear, The Cordelia Dream, is a clever, self-referential analysis of our human desire to create immortality through art – at whatever personal cost. The Royal Shakespeare Company …
London’s arts scene wakes from its early winter slumber to bring us two arty openings this week. Both Indian Highway and Magnificence of the Tsars open today. At the V&A, Magnificence of the Tsars looks at the opulence and grandeur of Imperial Russia; the perfect …
The Royal Shakespeare Company opens its London winter season with The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, at Wilton’s Music Hall, a crumbling old relic down a back street in Tower Hill, which last night reeked of soporific mulled wine. The play, like its venue, is a …
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