Arts

Arts

• Small Island - theatre review

  

  The novelist Andrea Levy sadly died in February 2019.  The National Theatre’s adaptation of her novel ‘Small Island’ is a wonderful tribute to her commitment to telling the stories of Jamaicans in Britain.  Set in the 1940s, this is an important play for our times. 

• Bristol residents join the battle to save Hamilton House

  

  Opposing landlords’ plans to turn a community hub into luxury flats, workers and local residents held a vibrant protest in the streets and marched on City Hall, reports Ross Maidment

• May Days review - a fitting tribute to Grenfell and a society fighting back

  

  This staging of a potent poem of our times gives voice to a class realising its own power, finds Cameron Panting

• Context is King - exhibition review

  

  John Rees looks at the Royal Academy’s prestige exhibition, 'Charles I: King and Collector'

• Walking to Hell

  

  A poem on Grenfell

• A Moment of Disbelief: Poems on War, Terrorism, and Refugees - book review

  

  William Alderson’s poems in A Moment of Disbeliefand May Days unite politics and feeling in a brilliant reclaiming of a fine poetic tradition, finds Dominic Alexander

• Theatre review: Angel

  

  Angel is the deeply moving and memorable story of a heroic female Kurdish sniper in Syria

• The Acting Class review - A necessary declaration of intent from working-class actors

  

  Without the bank of mum and dad as support, opportunities in the arts are becoming non-existent. This new documentary is a cry of anger against this class injustice

• Studio: Remembering Chris Marker

  

  Chris Marker, the innovative, left-wing filmmaker, is given a moving and insightful tribute in Studio: Remembering Chris Marker, finds Tom Griffiths

• 'May Days' - poem

  

  A poem by William Alderson on the current state of Britian

• The radical cinema of George A. Romero

  

  The late horror director changed the way we see the monstrous Other, writes Jack Brindelli

• Film review: Stockholm My Love

  

  A film that draws a powerful link between a city and its inhabitants, writes Tom Griffiths

• Theatre review: Richard III

  

  The Arcola Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare‘s play is an unsettling experience

• Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths - review

  

  A fascinating exhibition at the British Library paints an ambiguous picture of the events of 1917

• Class in the drama class: actors and privilege

  

  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne explain why they are making a new documentary, The Acting Class

• Theatre review: Othello

  

  The Globe's production of Shakespeare's play is tense and compelling, writes Tom Griffiths

• Sylvia: a play about Sylvia Pankhurst

  

  An updated version of Jacqueline Mulhallen’s one-woman play is currently on tour

• Theatre review: Hedda Gabler

  

  Ibsen's play isn’t feminist, but the role is still one of the theatre’s most exciting female characters – brutal, mad and vengeful

• Culture matters to us all

  

  As libraries, galleries and museums face cuts across the board, Jonathan Maunders reports from the fight-back on the streets

• Ken Loach talks Daniel Blake, Jeremy Corbyn and Leon Trotsky

  

  The award-winning film director talks about his latest film, his political influences, and the challenges now facing the left in a wide ranging interview with John Rees

• We can be heroes: remembering David Bowie with a purpose

  

  Philosophy Football's Bowie shirts are a fitting memorial for the late artist, writes Mark Perryman

• Lost and found Shelley poem

  

  A lost poem by the revolutionary poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has been found. Jackie Mulhallen takes a read and investigates

• The surprising truth about Duchamp's urinal

  

  It's been reported that a female Dada poet and artist was in fact behind a famous modernist art work. Sue Tate explains what the fuss is about

• #OccupyUAL: our creativity none of your business

  

  Students were taken to court by University of the Arts London for occupying in protest against cuts to further education and Foundation degree courses. Anna Dakin reports