Wing Hong, Hugo and Lucy There’s no business like show business … I had a great time last night onstage with a group of talented Asian actors who’d been brought together at the New Diorama Theatre by director Wing Hong Li. As an exploration of power dynamics and the madness of crowds, The Other Shore, […]
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Viewed from my sick bed — how apt! — Tom Six’s The Human Centipede was a perfectly good horror tale of power. Two American women and a Japanese tourist find themselves in the clutches of a mad scientist, Teutonic Doctor Heiter (creepy Dieter Laser), in his modern house deep in a German forest, so it
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Anna with Steve Ingamells on the balcony of the flat he and Denise were renting. Here, for your pleasure, a selection of pix from my stay in St Ives during the Arts Festival. More to come. St Ives Festival 2011: Intro and “Kicking A Dinosaur” videoSt Ives Festival 2011: “Big Society: on a conversation in
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A little bit of politics, laydees an’ gennelmen with “Big Society: on a conversation at the Foundling Museum”. Recorded at Café Art during the St Ives Arts Festival September 2011. Written in June 2011. St Ives Festival 2011: Intro and Kicking A Dinosaur videoSt Ives Festival 2011 pix: Artists & Tate BalloonsSt Ives Festival 2011
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Madam Miaow is back from St Ives … and this time it’s personal. I had a delightful time in St Ives but it was an odd one. It got off to a disastrous start with me trashing my utterly reliable X-reg Ford Focus on the A30 on a foggy Bodmin Moor, aquaplaning into the back
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Takeaway Theatre Royal Stratford East The cast were fab, the energy level of the production was sky-high, but why was all that talent wasted on a heartless non-story about such an unsympathetic character? Takeaway, a musical touted by some as a long-awaited breakthrough for UK Chinese, is a delight in so many ways that it’s
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