If the 1986 film Gothic is anything to go by, the life of Mary Shelley – author of the ultimate gothic horror novel – was as weird and scandalous as her doctor’s monster. Bringing the life of this novelist to light is a new stage production by LAMDA. The play…
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Paint splattered Mickey Mouse toys lace the huge studio of Joyce Pensato and act as inspiration to her larger than life portrait paintings: although her style is a far cry from the Disney Technicolor days. Often working in black and white and adopting a drama more akin to the daubs…
When this exhibition graced the Iraqi pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale, the commissioners were keen to make it authentic, even down to serving tea and kleytcha bil joz, Iraqi traditional biscuits. Since the biscuits couldn’t be bought in Italy, an Iraqi expat with a Swedish passport was flown in…
Ask someone to think of the country Rwanda and they will rarely be able to associate it with anything beyond war and genocide. But, 20 years on from the massacre of an estimated 1 million people, the news that the country has found ways to live with its traumatic past…
With an acronym that sounds like a leading world power, UVA are due to take over The Curve gallery this Spring with their latest site-specific project. Well-known for their manipulation of space, light and sound, this new piece plays with the unique shape of the Barbican’s temporary exhibition gallery to…
Trawl your child’s mind for a memory of interactive adventure fiction circa 1980s, and you’ll know exactly where the title of this Soho Theatre play is heading. Nathan Penlington translates his obsession with the classic Choose Your married woman datingtraffic webcams ny Own Adventure books into this revived one-man play…