MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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Broken Gargoyles, Fridman Gallery, New York
WWI horrors the focus of haunting lockdown show from Diamanda Galas
'BROKEN GARGOYLES': Images from Plastic Surgery of the Face by Sir Harold Gillies, 1920
![REBELS: Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar in Nadia Fall’s powerful debut feature Brides [Pic: IMDb]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-09/round%20up%20web_0.jpg.webp?itok=41xI6jhN)
MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
LOCKDOWN has led to a wholesale change in how art is created, experienced and consumed and the SO⅃OS series at New York’s Fridman Gallery is as good an example as any.
Reflecting New York’s shelter-in-place guidelines, only the performer is present in the room and the space itself is the viewer.
Over 12 weekly shows inside the empty gallery, each performer makes the space their own, whether with glitch pop from Victoria Keddle, C Lavender’s Impulse Chamber or Diamanda Galas’s sound work Broken Gargoyles.
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