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This was a very interesting exhibition from a group of artists who challenged what art is and tried to move away from art being representational. The exhibition takes you through the development of Rodchenko and Popova’s work, each room containing examples from a short period of time. Rodchenko and Popova defined Constructivism and it is…
Read more Rodchenko and Popova (Tate Modern, 14th February 2009)
It was Valentine’s day when we went to see Twelfth Night at the Wyndham’s Theatre, and we’d spent the day in London, which had been decked out with red hearts, so it was a very appropriate day to go and watch a love story. Though Twelfth Night explores different relationships and different forms of love.…
Read more Twelfth Night (The Donmar in the West End, Saturday 14th February 2009)
This is a young cast, so we don’t see the difference in ages between characters in physical appearance, but in a production which draws attention to itself as theatre. This production has echoes of the company’s earlier production, A Clockwork Orange with its audience interaction and a leftover bowler hat from A Clockwork Orange appears…
It was really horrific watching a woman have her face smashed with a hammer last night in the continuing Police drama Moses Jones. It’s a drama as I’ve said before that doesn’t really spare us the details of both the mental and physical violence. I am struggling to follow Moses Jones because it is very…
Recently, I feel like I’ve been binging on Crime dramas. Is it that time of year… From the wrong side of the law perspective, I watched the new Minder (4th February 2009 Five) last night on Sky Plus. I had heard some of the reviewers which weren’t that keen. Why produce a remake and George…
Carla said during the episode of Coronation Street last night: “The lady protest too much. Methinks.” So there is a Hamlet connection. As the programme developed the storyline, it wasn’t Hamlet that I felt it was alluding to but Richard III. As the evil Tony admits to his murders and then tries to bare his…
Read more Richard III (ITV 1, Coronation Street, 6th February 2009)
It’s going to snow again tomorrow and we’ve all be warned about the weather. It was icy this morning, but I could walk on it. I worry when the children are going to school they’ll make slides then it becomes very slippy on the paths. I’m sure it snowed much worse than this when we…
Ok I said I was getting a little fed up with the ‘Tony is a murderer’ Coronation Street story line yesterday, but it was a great cliff hanger tonight. Just like Emilia in Othello, Carla is out to expose her husband for the rat he is. We all know what happened in Othello, so a…
Read more Is Carla Emilia? (ITV1, Coronation Street, 4th February 2009)
I have just been reading Russell Davies’ The Writer’s Tale. The book is about the conception and filming of Series 4 of Doctor Who. So a very heavy hardback, with lots of delicious photographs of the programme and behind the scenes stuff, as well as snippets of scripts. Written in an epistolatory style, it uses…
The Daily Telegraph are now saying that David Tennant was excluded from the Oliver award nominations because he only did a few perfomances in the role. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4446759/David-Tennant-excluded-from-voting-for-Laurence-Olivier-Awards.html
