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Cloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival

Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes...

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Big Man Japan – Film/Animation Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival

Combining Live Action and CG Animation, and taking major influence from Japanese monster movies, such as Godzilla, Big Man Japan was the final film screening at the Manipulate Visual Arts Festival at...

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Slick – Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival

Slick is a theatrical performance that involves clever puppetry, toilet humour and intelligent and novel set construction. Created by the Vox Motus theatre group we are told the story of 9 year old...

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Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys – The ‘Lost’ Photographs @ Summerhall Galleries...

The viewer is presented with a photographic exhibition that showcases a voyeuristic insight to a party given by Andy Warhol to his friend Jospeh Beuys. This in itself may not seem worthy of an...

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Papercut @ Manipulate, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Papercut is a one woman show that is heavily influenced by classic Hollywood cinema, film noir and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Yael Rasooly is definitely not a blonde Hitchcockian victim, but is in...

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Schiklgruber…Alias Adolf Hitler – Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre...

Normal 0 During the performance of SCHIKLGRUBER…ALIAS ADOLF HITLER we are taken to Adolf Hitler’s bunker during the last bleak hours of his life. Told through the medium of puppetry the audience is...

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Light Show – Hayward Gallery

Light Show – Hayward Gallery I found myself wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the Hayward Gallery’s Light Show exclaiming excitedly to my friends about the incredible work on display. My childlike wonder...

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Schwitters in Britain – Tate Britain

Tate Britain: Schwitters in Britain. Whoever said “it’s all the same thing” at the Tate Britain’s Schwitters in Britain exhibition clearly wasn’t looking hard enough. Curated intelligently and with a...

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Boy Wonders Looper – A Review

Looper is the latest film from director Rian Johnson (Brick), starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a prosthetic nose as Joe, along with Bruce Willis also as Joe, only slightly older. I actually really...

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Shaggy Doggrel @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013

**** (4 Stars) Ben Mellor and Dan Steele are having a busy and successful Edinburgh Fringe. Last year they previewed an experimental poetry/music/spoken word show called Anthropoetry (reviewed here in...

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Jem Rolls @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013

**** (4 Stars) Jem Rolls is loud and fast. He takes to the stage without a microphone and holds the audiences attention with his booming voice and his first class poetry. The delivery is almost [...]

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Henry V at Oxford Castle, by Creation Theatre. Reviewed 22nd August 2013.

Creation Theatre has once again triumphed in bringing Shakespeare to life in an accessible and striking manner. This pared down Henry V is no dry polemic of war and chivalry but a fast paced and [...]

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Venice Film Festival Review – Philomena starring Steve Coogan

‘The Sisters of Little Mercy…’ A BBC-backed film is in competition at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. Philomena is the tale of an elderly woman’s search for the son that was taken from her by [...]

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Film review: Before Midnight

First things first, for those who haven’t seen Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, find them and do it as soon as possible. They will change the way you view the romantic comedy genre altogether and [...]

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Review: Pygmalion @ The Theatre Royal, Brighton, 17.03.2014

Before I begin, I must confess that I’m not exactly a huge fan of George Bernard Shaw. It isn’t that I don’t appreciate his contribution to the dramatic arts, I just don’t know a great [...]

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Macbeth. Creation Theatre. 1st August -13th September, Lady Margaret Hall,...

From the outset, it should be made clear that Creation Theatre’s Macbeth, adapted and directed by Jonathan Holloway, is not a ‘literal rendering’ of the text. In the programme notes, it states that the...

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The London Critics animated review show – Episode 4 – Mr Turner and Gothic at...

The latest episode of The London Critics. Each week our two intrepid critics discuss theatre, film, music or other culture from London. Here they talk about the new Mike Leigh film Mr Turner and the [...]

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#ArtistandEmpire at the @Tate – reviewed in a sonnet by the Art Critic...

Artist and Empire at the Tate. Reviewed through the medium of poetry by Haverford Jones Once Britain conducted the world’s choir, ’tis hard to credit but here is some proof. The Tate’s new show Artist...

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Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck

23rd June – 4th September 2016 The National Gallery Ever wondered which art work artists have hanging on their walls?  The National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing hosts Painters’ Paintings From Freud to Van...

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe Tate Modern 6th July – 30th Oct 2016 Tate Modern’s current exhibition explores Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) during her most productive years (1910’s – 60’s) with the ‘Aims to dispel...

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