GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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Navigating 21st century dating without moralising
SIMON PARSONS enjoys a seemingly mismatched drama with likeable personalities and amusing dialogue
Tom Kay as Jake Newhouse and Maja Simonsen as Anna
[Ali Wright]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
Banging Denmark
Finborough Theatre
RECEIVING its European premiere, Van Badham’s play is a sparkling rom com that dissects some of the controversial, contemporary issues with dating.
Tom Kay plays the successful, misogynist podcaster and self-help, pick-up artist, Jake Newhouse, aka Guy Dewitt. His uncompromising sexist broadcasts to needy males going by such absurd pseudonyms as Hammerhead and Mr Tearsdry might sound as if they are out of an Andrew Tate playbook if they were not so comically ridiculous.
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ANGUS REID squirms at the spectacle of a bitter millennial on work experience in a gay sauna
SIMON PARSONS is gripped by a psychological thriller that questions the the power of the state over vulnerable individuals
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones