Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Arts Ahead
Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
PIC METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
“THERE is that smaller world which is the stage and that larger stage which is the world,” writer and critic Isaac Goldberg once said.
Truth is, it’s all becoming one and the same as enforced isolation connects us with art, music and theatre we probably wouldn’t get to see in normal times.
A case in point is the latest online offering from Opera North. Internationally renowned conductor Tobias Ringborn should have been at the helm of its orchestra for concerts of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra in Leeds and Huddersfield by now.
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