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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Death of a Salesman, Noël Coward Theatre by Fisun Güner

We’ve not been short of memorable London productions of Arthur Miller’s best known works. Ivo van Hove’s triple Olivier award-winning A View from the Bridge, which transferred to the W…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:00AM
Sunday, February 15, 2015

theartsdesk in Moscow: a bewitching Eugene Onegin by Fisun Güner

As Shakespeare is to these native isles, so Pushkin is to Russia. And Eugene Onegin, Alexander Puskin’s enduring verse novel first published in serial form in 1825, is the most honoured an…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00AM
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Was it right to censor Exhibit B? by Fisun Güner

So, Exhibit B, the controversial “human zoo” using black actors to re-enact the role of ethnographic exhibits – semi-naked, chained, silenced by metal masks and degraded in metal colla…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:51AM
Friday, August 8, 2014

Opinion: The Tricycle were right over the UK Jewish Film Festival by Fisun Güner

Imagine an industrial disaster that manages to kill, maim or make homeless a significant percentage of the population of a densely populated city. Then imagine the effects of that disaster f…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:07AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Dorian Gray, Riverside Studios by Fisun Güner

Adapted by Linnie Reedman and with music by Joe Evans, Oscar Wilde’s only novel – the more scandalous original version serialised in 1890, which Wilde himself later expurgated – finds …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:40AM
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Lizzie Siddal, Arcola Theatre by Fisun Güner

Lizzie Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite muse and model for John Everett Millais’ 1852 sensation Ophelia, died a tragic death aged 32 from a laudanum overdose, the Victorian’s opiate of choice to w…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:30AM
Thursday, August 1, 2013

A Victorian Eye, Jermyn Street Theatre by Fisun Güner

“Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye,” Cézanne once said of the Impressionist painter. Unlike Cézanne, British artist William Blake Richmond, named by his artist father after…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AM
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Steptoe and Son, Lyric Hammersmith by Fisun Güner

What’s this? Harold and Albert turfed out of their old stamping ground of Shepherd’s Bush and turned into West Country natives? Any change to a cherished sitcom comes at the theatre dire…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00AM
Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Turn of the Screw, Almeida Theatre by Fisun Güner

There are a few laughs in this new adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, Henry James’s chilling and ambiguous novella, written in 1897 after he was told a tale of children possessed by…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:54AM
Friday, November 16, 2012

The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, Almeida Theatre by Fisun Güner

There’s no attempt to romanticise the hero of Nick Dear’s new play about the Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas. Thomas, who died in action in the Battle of Arras in 1917 after enlisting at …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:22AM
Friday, September 21, 2012

Mademoiselle Julie, Barbican by Fisun Güner

Let one visual artist and one fashion designer loose on a theatre production and you may find both set and costumes upstaging the actors. Laurent P Berger has designed a Miers Van der Rohe-t…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:32AM
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Globe to Globe: Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe by Fisun Güner

As soon as the two leads entered the stage you were left in no doubt that you were in the presence of stars, at least in their native Turkey: thunderous applause, cheers and whistles accompa…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:29AM
Monday, May 21, 2012

Globe to Globe: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe by Fisun Güner

The Globe to Globe season has enjoyed tremendous goodwill from audiences and critics alike. And this has been largely repaid, for it’s been a joy and a wonder to learn just how much contem…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:10AM
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Globe to Globe: Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe by Fisun Güner

Mention that a Palestinian theatre company are performing Richard II and the play’s  themes are immediately thrown into sharp relief: usurpation, homeland and banishment, and the idea…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:55AM
Friday, March 23, 2012

The Master and Margarita, Barbican by Fisun Güner

The Master and Margarita is a rare beast. Not only is it considered to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, it also regularly tops reader-lists of all-time favourite books. So …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:55AM
Monday, December 26, 2011

2011: Belgian Surrealism, Austrian angst, and a melancholy Dane in a madhouse by Fisun Güner

Last year, like every year, is a bit of a blur. I saw a lot, but all the good stuff seems to have clustered near the end. Maybe an end of year cultural bloat has finally settled. Anyway, to …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:30AM
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Pitmen Painters, Duchess Theatre by Fisun Güner

What’s so remarkable about a group of working-class men learning to paint? You may think there is, or you may think there isn’t. You may think that anyone with very little formal educati…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:06AM

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