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'Madness in Civilisation' at the Wellcome Collection, 25th March 2015
A successful historian must play psychoanalyst to their period. Entire societies are gently laid on the couch, their ambitions, paranoias, pride and history intelligently probed in an effort to get at...
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'Vernon God Little' at The Space, 26th March 2015
DBC Pierre's Booker prize winning novel Vernon God Little was first adapted by Tanya Ronder for Young Vic in 2007. Critically acclaimed, the production was hailed for its humour, ingenious staging,...
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'Wired Up' at Arebyte Gallery, 28th March 2015
I love it when art and science climb into bed together. There's something thrilling about the friction of rigorous objectivity of science rubbing up against the subjectivity of art. Over the 2013-14...
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'Heckle: A Series of Perfomances' at Bosse & Baum, 28th March 2015
Bloody pavement greeted me as I left Peckham Rye station on Saturday afternoon. Moments before I arrived, some guy had his hand chopped off by unknown assailants. Now, with the street festooned with...
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'Bright Shadow' at the Morgue, Chelsea College of Arts, 30th March 2015
Hosting an exhibition in an old morgue bodes well for what's inside. The windowless room, tucked away in the bowels of the former Royal Army Medical College (now the Chelsea College of Art and Design),...
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'Creditors' at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Outside we hear the sounds of rioting. Credit has, according to the front page of a newspaper, finally crunched too hard. The masses are burning the banks, demanding their share of what's rightfully...
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Cerebellum Relaunch - 8th April 2015
Almost a year ago I attended Cerebellum, my friend Charlotte CHW's performance art evening. Now, Cerebellum returns! Split between Hastings and London, I'm sure the place will witness all manner of...
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'Jauja' (2015) directed by Lisandro Alonso
"Jauja isn’t for everyone. This is an art western that revels in cryptic, languid surrealism, giving short shrift to conventional narrative and characterization. In short, you’ve got to have an...
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'Dorian Gray' at the King's Head Theatre, 7th April 2015
From minute one Dorian Gray is at pains to expose its own artifice. Another Soup pride themselves on their use of 'Brechtian Immersion', drawing us into Wilde's luxuriously amoral fiction while...
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'Cerebellum' at The Stag's Head, 8th April 2015
As I watched a man beat himself over the head with a cymbal, I wondered just what the hell I'm doing here. Most people are probably tucked up on their sofas watching Masterchef or something, while I'm...
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'Islington South & Finsbury Housing Hustings' at the Bentham Community...
With the General Election just 23 days away, it's time to meet the candidates. And so, to Bentham Community Centre. Tucked away off Essex Road, the place is far from the oak-panelled opulence of...
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'The Three Lions' at the St James Theatre, 11th April 2015
The greatest crime that The Three Lions commits is lodging Baddiel and Skinner's song of the same name firmly on my head. For three days now that earworm has been munching its way through my brain,...
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'Animals' at Theatre503, 13th April 2015
Animals has a curdled heart. The play peeks into a dystopian future where anyone over 70 is ruthlessly terminated by the state unless their surviving relatives pay a hefty 'sentimental attachment fee'....
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'Little Heroes' by Roy's People, at the Curious Duke Gallery
The idea of miniature people picking their way through our lives is seductive. From the fairy circles of folklore through the 1957 film The Incredible Shrinking Man to Mary Norton's The Borrowers,...
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'Unfriended' (2015) directed by Levan Gabriadze
It's difficult to take a ghost seriously after it's deployed haunted image macros. This cuts to the core of Unfriended: an interesting formal experiment but a crap horror movie. Essentially I Know What...
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'Avengers: Age of Ultron' (2015) directed by Joss Whedon
If you crave the sight of superheroes bashing apart robots then Avengers: Age of Ultron will not disappoint. Within these glossy 141 minutes an armada of CG robots are beheaded, exploded, sliced apart,...
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'Dead Royal' at the Ovalhouse, 22nd April 2015
The most perceptive line in Dead Royal comes when Diana Spencer is hunting for the 'Windsor Pearls'. She muses on the appropriateness of the pearl as symbol of royalty: a piece of dirt gradually...
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'No Milk for the Foxes' at Camden People's Theatre, 23rd April 2015
Just when did the salt of the earth become the scum of the earth? That question, paraphrased from Owen Jones' excellent Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, powers No Milk for the Foxes. It's...
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'Clarion' at the Arcola Theatre
The Daily Mail pumps out an neverending torrent of venomous shite. Whenever I'm in the unfortunate position of reading it I can't help but wonder just who's manning the valves. Taking the paper at face...
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'Tony's Last Tape' at the Bridge House Theatre
Tony Benn died a national treasure. An impressive achievement for a radically left-wing politician who spent much of his parliamentary career demonised by the press. But, when all's said and done, what...
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