Swanning around in the 1880s, Reginald Bunthorn can attract just about any girl he wants with his pretentious poetry and posturing. Apart from Patience, the girl he wants. In this satire, he tries to win her over just as the men spurned by his devotees try to win them back.
This is Gilbert & Sullivan's satirical (and musical!) take on the British aesthetic movement of the time. It's all shy lovers, machismo jousting one minute and poetry the next.
The stage show inspired by the 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers follows dancer Jerry Travers as he begins work for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Enthusiastically practising his routine...
An exhibition of enigmatic photographic works by Edgar Martins this summer. After debuting earlier this year at one of London's most brilliant gallery/restaurant spaces - the wonderful Wapping Proj...
Another coup for Victoria Miro as gallery artist Yayoi Kusama gets a major solo show at Tate Modern. The artist - 83 in March - works across a huge range of media and is one of Japan's most prominent cultural...
To accompany the major survey exhibition of the career of Damien Hirst, Tate Modern is giving over its Turbine Hall to show the artist's much publicised diamond-covered skull, For the Love of God. Until...
A major survey of the works of influential twentieth century Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera movement. Expect works across a range of media, exloring consumerism...
The much-publicised Damien Hirst survey show takes over Tate Modern this summer, offering the world the chance to reappraise the career of one of the most famous artists in the world. The general consensus...
“Hope is the enemy of
reason” says a Nazi to a Jew in Michael Ashton's The Beekeeper.
It's a line which, for me, sets the focus of the story and so clever
are Ashton's metapho...
Can Themba's story of a husband's revenge on his cheating wife has been turned into a musical play by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne. When a young South African worker finds his wife in bed with...
The Duchess finds herself widowed and tied to her two brutish brothers who refuse to let her remarry so they can keep a hold on her inheritance. The discovery of her relationship with Antonio, her steward...
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