Tag: Culture
Chuk Iwuji: ‘My Hamlet is an ugly beast about to be unleashed’
A stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Iwuji is finally playing Hamlet, in a production inspired by Black Lives Matter and which is being performed in homeless shelters and prisons. For the Nigerian-born British actor Chuk Iwuji, to be or not to be wasnt remotely the question when it came to playing Hamlet. He has […]
Ottessa Moshfegh interview: Eileen started out as a joke, also I’m broke, also I want to be famous
The books interview: the Man Booker-shortlisted author talks about writing a thriller to get noticed, exorcising her childhood and sexist critics. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me This is the story of how I disappeared. Ottessa Moshfeghs novel, Eileen, shortlisted this week for the Man Booker prize, centres […]
I love theatre and I’m blind. Here’s how that works | Ria Adriani
Ria Andriani became blind at the age of five as the result of glaucoma. Thanks to tactile tours and audio descriptors, it hasn’t stopped her enjoying theatre. The Rabbits, written by Kate Miller-Heidke and adapted from a picture book by John Marsden and Shaun Tan, was one of the most popular shows to run at […]
Una review Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn child abuse drama is stagey disappointment
A two-hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise. The challenge with transforming a stage production into a movie is the need to provide enough of a justification as to why the move was necessary. The differences between the […]
Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
The real mystery of this 1930s cult thriller is not its murder, but the identity of its writer. So, asks Jonathan Coe, who was Cameron McCabe and what were the facts behind his fiction? This extraordinary work of postmodern fakery from the golden age of detective fiction was last reprinted 30 years ago, and in […]