One of the defining features of reality is weight. Fantasies have all the gravity-defying pleasure of an oxygen deprived high, but trying to recreate them in life evokes the spine-shrinkingly horrible sensation of throwing a piece of paper as hard as you can. Maybe it’s why fashion models are parchment light, as epitomised in Arthur [...]
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Posted in Art, Dance, Fashion, Theatre, tagged tate modern, caroline trentini, rothko, simon russell beale, kenneth branagh, galileo, ivanov on October 20, 2008 | No Comments »
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Posted in Dance, Literature, Music, Theatre, tagged beauty, christopher walken, dorian gray, gate theatre, hedda, leo tolstoy, matthew bourne on September 29, 2008 | No Comments »
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion”, wondered Count Tolstoy, no doubt blinking in the cruel glare bouncing off a harlot’s milk-white bosom, “that beauty is goodness”. In Leo veritas. Beauty is more reliably bad-ass, and too much of it can kill.
It’s a truism beautifully told in Hedda, Lucy Kirkwood’s updated version of Ibsen’s [...]
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Posted in Dance, Theatre, tagged charlie victor romeo, daniel kitson, DOT504, edinburgh fringe festival, political theatre, verbatim theatre, zinnie harris on August 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I hesitate to add to the omnipresent blogblurb about the Edinburgh Fringe, which begs for a online filter similar to Crunky’s anti-Olympics app. But ‘most everyone is wrong, predictably. The much-discussed provocative political set-pieces were sour, shouty and grim: Gordon Brown in a gimp mask. Moving in a sort of instinctive, inevitable way, they nonetheless [...]
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Posted in Dance, Film, Music, tagged seth lakeman, teddy thompson on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have found Jesus.
He has the face of an angel and the voice of a prophet, and he plays the fiddle like a devil with a carpenter’s arms. The second coming is an understatement; Robert Powell was a nice looking fella, but it’s a touch of cosmic genius to have made Messiah 2.0 from James [...]
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Posted in Dance, Music, tagged Fashion, Forgotten Melodies, Gnarls Berkeley, habit, podcast on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
The downy, milk-scented, chunky-knit cardigan of Habit is always in fashion. Earl Grey at three, Kir Royale for tea, and a good rogering by a Duke in the morning; heaven is a reclusive roost called Routine. Hence my softly sighing satisfaction at discovering Pandora Radio: enter a song or artist and it’s Music Genome Project [...]
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Posted in Art, Dance, tagged cigar, cuba, fuseli, gothic nightmares, learn how to draw animals on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Through a haze of Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona smoke, passionate polemic and ribald humour ring out to the rhythm of tin mugs of rum slamming the scored wooden table and worn-heeled boots drumming the sawdust-strewn floor. As wan dawn waxes, the band of ragged strangers dissolve into the light, unlikely to meet again yet [...]
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Posted in Dance, Fashion, Music, tagged o2 arena, prince, roland mouret, shelby j on August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Who wouldn’t love an ‘audience’ with the profligately procreative PollyPocket powerhouse that is Prince? However, preferring as I do the rumbustious companionship of a slap-up Shakespeare skit peformed by after-hours theatrical greats in a sawdust-strewn drinking den in Soho to the cavernous corporate queue-fest that nowadays constitutes a ‘big gig’, the royal one’s shindig at [...]
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