Good at the Harold Pinter theatre sees David Tennant on fine form as a reluctant Nazi October 15, 2022 CP Taylor’s 1981 play is a strange beast, the action tumbling through space and time as David Tennant’s professor John Halder recalls the events leading up to the Holocaust, for which he is accidentally, kind-of responsible for, in a roundabout way. Halder is a literary professor in 1930s Germany who once wrote a novel about [...]
Finding new ways to treat cataracts October 14, 2022 | City Talk Professor Barbara Pierscionek, Deputy Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. One of the worst fears is that of blindness. The great tragedy of the modern world is that so many people have sight impairment and that so much of this is preventable. In [...]
Plan your weekend: Top art and theatre to keep you entertained October 14, 2022 We’re into the most congested part of the London cultural calendar, with top new art and theatre coming thick and fast. If you’re unsure how to approach your weekend, relax, we have you covered. THE POLTERGEIST The Poltergeist is a darkly comic story about Sasha, an art prodigy who had celebrities queuing up to buy [...]
Rosaline film review: A smart rom-com set for cult status October 14, 2022 There have been many attempts to modernise Shakespeare over the years, but for every Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet there are numerous forgotten failures. Disney’s new romantic comedy, Rosaline, takes a different approach to a very famous story, and succeeds against the odds. Told with modern dialogue, this is the story of Romeo and Juliet [...]
The Band’s Visit, Donmar Warehouse, review: Great musical performances October 14, 2022 The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been booked to appear at the opening of an Arab cultural centre in Petah Tikva, part of metropolitan Tel Aviv. But a misunderstanding while ordering bus tickets at the airport finds the band stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva, a fictional nowheresville in the middle of the Negev Desert. What [...]
The Boy with Two Hearts, National Theatre, review: Poignant tale of love October 14, 2022 The Boy With Two Hearts is a true story turned into a book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri, about their own journey from Herat to Cardiff, focusing on their brother Hussein and his chronic heart condition. Transformed into a play by Phil Porter and the Wales Millennium Centre, it is a poignant tale of love [...]
Tears of happiness: How curing blindness in Dolakha saved a girls future October 14, 2022 | City Talk Dolakha is located in northeastern Nepal. Popular amongst tourists and natives, its natural beauty, cultural sites and array of hiking trails attract people from far and wide. One of the largest attractions in the area is the Bhimsen Temple, a site dedicated to one of the brothers in the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata. The temple [...]
Blues for an Alabama Sky review: A comic picture of The Great Depression, but not a cohesive one October 14, 2022 Who knew a play about The Great Depression could, and frankly, should, be this funny? We laugh or we cry, goes the old adage, and Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play is an uneven but often joyfully comic celebration of some of the vulnerable, brash and foolhardy characters who lived through it. We meet Angel who dreams [...]
Ollie Phillips: A good culture can give a side that extra one per cent October 14, 2022 “Rugby values” aren’t always renowned by those who look at the sport from the outside, but few could deny that the development of culture within a squad can be paramount to positivity on and off the field. We have seen in recent days and weeks how Worcester Warriors and Wasps have been smothered with wellwishers [...]
Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall and the rise and rise of women’s boxing October 13, 2022 The last time Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields met in a boxing ring, they were both amateurs with no realistic prospect of making a good living from the sport. A decade on, the bitter rivals are due to renew hostilities at the top of the professional ranks on a historic occasion that promises to earn [...]