MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
Arts Ahead
Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
“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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