IN CONVERSATION WITH: Ray O’LEARY
Reading Time: 2 minutesRay O’Leary recently pulled a man from a wrecked car and as the man lay dying, he used his last ounce of strength to ask Ray to tell his children that he loved them. Ray promised the…
Ke Meng
Theatre. Education. Culture.
I work in the showbiz in London and am a passionate theatregoer and exhibition/museum goer. Loving to communicate and exchange views. Occasionally grumbling about life in London.
Reviewer for A Young(ish）Perspective. As a v. honest reviewer, I'm open to any invitation of reviewing.
INCONVERSATION WITH: Melanie Bracewell
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith her twenties now wrapped, Melanie takes an inventory of her life so far, as we visit the series of events that led to her getting an ADHD diagnosis. Fittingly given thatdiagnosis, the show covers pretty much…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Ben Hall
Reading Time: 3 minutesOxford Playhouse brings its new production of Edward Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to the stage this week. Ahead of opening night, we spoke to Ben Hall who plays Nick in this searing drama. For tickets and listing,…
REVIEW: I’m Sorry, Prime Minister
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a product of Thatcher Britain, Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister, although set at No. 10 Downing Street, remains relatively apolitical in its aesthetics and taste: intellectually refined, subtle, restrained and slightly cynical.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Sam Butler
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental cross-arts company Fevered Sleep will make its Barbican debut with public art intervention This Grief Thing.
Chiten Theatre: The Gambler at Coronet Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes“immense spoken words” Directed by Motoi Miura, Kyoto based theatre company Chiten Theatre translates Dostoevsky’s The Gamblerinto a 90-minute, verbally intense and physically demanding theatrical experience. To partially reflect his own debt situation, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler under intense financial…
REVIEW: ASMF & Steven Isserlis
Reading Time: 2 minutesReturning to the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields for their first collaboration since 2016, the ASMF reunited with Steven Isserlis in an evening shaped by the ethos of chamber music at scale.
REVIEW: The Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley
Reading Time: 2 minutesRe-staging the enduring epistemological violence “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro”. Claimed by James Baldwin at the Cambridge Union Society in 1965. Coming less than a year after the Civil Rights Act…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Sam Amidon
Reading Time: 2 minutesSam is performing at Kings Place with Pekka Kuusisto and members of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra on 24 February as part of the 'Platoon Presents' series to launch their new album Willows
FEATURE: Re-reading The Handmaiden’s Love, Performance, and the Politics of Adaptation
Reading Time: 2 minutesSelected by Emerald Fennell as part of her Love Stories programme at BFI IMAX, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden arrives already framed as an exemplary but disruptive romance. It is a positioning that feels both apt and slightly provocative.