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The House Of Yes – Theatre Review
MATTHEW Parker’s production of The House Of Yes is a claustrophobic affair. A pea souper of a ‘horror’ that the audience, hemmed into The Hope Theatre like sardines, cannot escape from. It’s uncomfortable, but utterly rewarding: a fitting finale for Parker who leaves The Hope at the end of the year, having done much to…
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The Niceties – Theatre Review
THE Niceties, written by American playwright Eleanor Burgess, is a play that comes to the boil like a raging kettle, takes a rest – and then furiously boils away again. It’s a play of our time, sometimes uncomfortable on the ear, and leaves most viewers questioning themselves and their long-held beliefs. In a nutshell: are…
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Call Me Fury – Theatre Review
CALL Me Fury is an ambitious play from the pen of Sasha Wilson. Thought provoking. In places, it’s shocking although it is not without occasional humour and lashings of good music, wit and foot tapping songs. Focused on the witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 (the focus of Arthur…
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The Elixir Of Love – Theatre Review
HANNAH Noone’s production of The Elixir Of Love is a riotous cocktail of fun. Some 95 minutes of snap, crackle and pop. Based on Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (1832), and given a fresh lick of witty paint by writers Chris Harris and David Eaton, the opera is engaging and entertaining from start to finish. …
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Raindance 2019: Natasha Merkulova And Aleksey Chupov On ‘The Man Who Surprised Everyone’
Directors Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov join us on Close-up Culture to give insight into their ‘astonishing’ new film, The Man Who Surprised Everyone. The film follows the story of Egor, a fearless state forest guard living in Siberia, as he is diagnosed with cancer and chooses to take the identity of a woman as…
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Anahera – Theatre Review
A whiff of abuse lies at the heart of Anahera, a bold play from the pen of Emma Kinane, currently showing at the Finborough Theatre in London’s Chelsea. It makes for gripping viewing as the story, set in New Zealand, unfolds in two separate time periods: ten years previously and ten years into the future…
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Venice 2019: Meet The Duo Behind Mindf**k VR Experience ‘The Collider’
Ex-documentary filmmakers Amy Rose and May Abdalla are the driving force behind Anagram, an award-winning creative company specialising in interactive storytelling and immersive experience design. One of their latest creations, The Collider, has drawn international attention and acclaim, including a review from Vice’s Jan van Tienen which called the experience: ‘one big mindfuck of vulnerability,…
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Interview: Makeup Effects Expert Adrien Morot On Creating Alligators And Gore For Alexandre Aja’s ‘Crawl’
With more than three decades of experience and over 130 credits to his name, Adrien Morot is one of the most experienced and in-demand makeup effects experts in the film industry. Morot – who has worked on Vice, Mother!, Sicario, Pet Sematary, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and many other acclaimed films – joins us…
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How We Begin – Theatre Review
HOW We Begin is a beautiful play about love and relationships – and difficult choices that sometimes need to be made. It’s tenderly performed by actors whose on-stage relationship is joyously symbiotic. Written by Elisabeth Lewerenz and directed by Elizabeth Benbow (founders of Surfacing Act Theatre), the play examines the three-way relationship that emerges between…
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Mating In Captivity – Theatre Review
WHEN a couple come home on their wedding night, there’s only one thing (understandably) on their mind – a lot of rampant, drunken sex in the ‘f…k area’. But the presence of a former lover in the marital bed (understandably) upsets the applecart and kills the libido, threatening the marriage before it has even been consummated.…
