Talking of movies…
Saturday Night at The Movies, a song recorded by The Drifters in 1964, with its catchy chorus and the suggestion that you’d be all cuddled up with your sweetheart watching the latest flick. Wind forward…
Magical, loveable and next door
New team member Iacovos Simeou goes down a happy memory lane… Once upon a time in a land that didn’t have smart phones, AI or social media you could go to your local library and…
A contrast of passions
Carlos Acosta’s 'Cuban Baroque' (Sadler’s Wells) is built on a delicious contradiction: the ornate restraint of the Baroque meeting the passion,freedom and physical daring of contemporary Cuban dance. Rather than treating those traditions as opposites,…
Spooked into laughter
It’s October! Supermarkets pile Halloween selection boxes by the checkouts, my normally strait-laced friends text me for niche horror recommendations (This year it's Messiah of Evil) and theatre directors bring out the tried and tested…
Blissfully mad
A comedy of (bad) manners featuring a superciliously solipsistic family with an air of perceived grandiosity which belies an enormous inferiority complex, headed by a drama queen matriarch, who actually hates being a mother. Misbehaving…
An extraordinary debut
Mariam Batsashvili is a Georgian classical pianist. She started playing the piano at the tender age of 4 under Natalia Natsvlishvili. In 2014, she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, after having…
Peter Polycarpou on becoming Poirot, 47 years in acting and the joy of the job
Peter Polycarpou on becoming Poirot, 47 years in acting and the joy of the job For more than four decades, Peter Polycarpou has built an extraordinary career across stage and screen, earning two Olivier Award…