RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
“THERE is that smaller world which is the stage and that larger stage which is the world,” writer and critic Isaac Goldberg once said.
Truth is, it’s all becoming one and the same as enforced isolation connects us with art, music and theatre we probably wouldn’t get to see in normal times.
A case in point is the latest online offering from Opera North. Internationally renowned conductor Tobias Ringborn should have been at the helm of its orchestra for concerts of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra in Leeds and Huddersfield by now.
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