Archives for Reviews - Page 10
Fat Tuesday 2018
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK RICHARDS
Opera and Ballet International Perfectly pins Madame Butterfly
White Rock 30th January The decision to show Ellen Kent’s production of Madame Butterfly at the White Rock was timely. It reveals how the cliched view that a conquering country…
REVIEW: The Post
Steven Spielberg said of his latest film, eleven months in the making, “This is the fastest film I ever made.” The reason? “The level of urgency to make the movie…
L’incoronazione di Poppea 11 November, 2017, St. Mary in the Castle, reviewed by Thomas Denman
From left, Sarah Parkin as Poppea and Lucilla Graham as Nero, photo by Chris Parker On Saturday last weekend, another brave and innovative production from Barefoot Opera, electrified a packed…
LETTERS I HAVEN’T WRITTEN, Gwyneth Herbert at The Kino Teatr Nov 29th
reviewed by Colin Gibson St Leonards' Kino Teatr was lucky enough to be one of the hand-picked venues for a preview of Letters I Haven’t Written, the brand new…
Emma Harwood at The Palace
Reviewed by Angelica Campion The refurbished Palace public house at the America Ground on Hastings seafront has a large parlour in the back where they have Americana nights reflecting the…
Derek Jarman’s jubilee at Electric Palace
by Sarah J Lloyd Performance artist Emilia Telese hosted a screening of Derek Jarman's 1978 punk movie Jubilee last week, and afterwards a lively Q and A with Jordan, the…
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner at The Stables Theatre, Hastings 22nd March 2017
by Darren Johnson Peter Knight will be known to many as fiddle supremo of folk rockers Steeleye Span, for over four decades. The Gigspanner trio initially began as a side…
New St Leonards Gallery/Antique Space Opens
The iconic Marine Court, St Leonards is the location of OBJEKT D’ART! – Michele Doyle’s new gallery showcasing antique specialists and featuring an ever-changing display of affordable and exclusive artifacts.…
Gender Breakdown review
As we welcome the new year, it seems appropriate to reflect on one of the more sobering and thought-provoking cultural events of 2016, which provided a hopeful spark at the…
Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land
Drama on screen at the Kino Teatr Review by Elizabeth Allen The innovation of screening live stage performances, drama and opera, and so making them widely available, has unarguably proved…
Brexit Boris: From Mayor to Nightmare
By Heathcote Williams - (Public Reading Rooms £) Review by Colin Gibson In a post-truth world where idle conjecture has replaced fact and where public opinion is shaped by the keyboard…
Bookbuster Book Review: NOIR by Ken Champion
Review by Chris Connelley I read a fair amount of fiction, and most of the British stuff is clever, elegant and slight. Its miniaturist map takes in comfortably-off urban worlds…
Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
An Empty Sleeve production at Kino Teatr Reviewed by Elizabeth Allen The Cherry Orchard is a famously slippery play. While Chekhov declared this, his last drama, to be a comedy…
To Have Not I, Daniel Blake
Director: Ken Loach Reviewed by Charley Bolding-Smith Ken Loach has been raging against the machine since he burst into cinema with Poor Cow in 1967. Nearly fifty years later, he…
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser
Production: The Stables, Director: Peter Mould Reviewed by Colin Gibson Anyone familiar with the 1983 film of the same name starring Albert Finney as “Sir” and Tom Courtenay as Norman,…
A HIP READ – Shine On, Marquee Moon by Zoe Howe
Review by Pete Donohue: It isn’t easy ro write a debut novel set within the music industry without slipping into rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Zoe Howe overcomes this problem by…
Waiting for Gareth
Hitler Pizzeria reviewed by Kent Barker The problem with Samuel Becket’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ is that you know from the outset your wait will be fruitless because the programme cast-list…
Doozer McDooze/Hobo Jones/Ukelele Dave
Lizz Francis reviews a Tubman gig David Francis AKA Ukulele Dave kicked off the Doozer McDooze gig at the Tubman, Cambridge Rd on Saturday night (Nov 12th). He performed solo,…
Trash Cannes 5-Day Film Challenge Screening
Reviewed by Will Snelling Another year, another blast of creativity and invention in the form of nineteen short films, each made within five days, each demonstrating the playfulness and artistry…
The Bayeux Tapestry: expert academic reveals 1066 saga’s subversive seam
The Bayeux tapestry is widely regarded as propaganda by the victorious Norman overlords, celebrating their victory over the Saxons. Professor Gale Owen -Crocker holds up a section of a copy…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Buddha Triangle at Smallworld
Welcome home, welcome back, welcome to Smallworld. An inter-dimensional portal to a world in which everything and nothing is real. A place to go to lose your mind and find…
It’s cinema paradiso for me in Rye
By Andrew Everest For me, a trip to the cinema should be more than a film fix with fast food thrown in in my book, and if you’re like me…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
The Opportunity
The Opportunity Friday 29 April saw graphic novel author Will Volley appearing at The Beacon on Hastings’ West Hill. In an interview led by local writer Erica Smith, he talked…
Burnt Supper
Rebel Rebel/Don’t Tell Me Truth Hurts On the way home today, I told M that something sad had happened, that a man called David Bowie has died. He was mildly…
Review of Shantaram
This book surprises in lots of different ways. It is written by a fugitive from justice and ex-armed robber. This criminal gang-member describes his life and loves with such brilliant…