Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of the Globe Theatre, is no stranger to pushing boundaries and courting the controversy that comes with creativity – and Twelfth Night is no different.
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Head Full of Snow, American Gods Review
If you haven’t started American Gods by now then you should. It brings to life a stunning and intricate world of humans and Gods, living side by side, and bickering amongst themselves.
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Harry Styles – Harry Styles
The debut solo album from the golden boy of British pop is far more accomplished than his previous pop efforts, with only its lack of cohesive direction and tired lyricism dragging it down.
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Jeremy Corbyn: Impotent
I didn’t go to Jeremy Corbyn’s rally in Leamington Spa yesterday. I didn’t need to. I (and almost everyone else) already knew what he was going to say.
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Should Punk Stay Or Should It Go?
A closer look at the age-old question of whether punk is dead reveals quite the opposite – the sentiments behind the genre may have changed, and it may have but a shadow of its former social relevance, but punk is very much alive and kicking despite today’s naysayers.
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Angels in America
To say the National Theatre’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America has been hotly anticipated, is an understatement. It was an instant sell out and boasts a heavy weight, award winning team. The play is divided into two parts – The Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. So, does the 7-hour double bill live up to…
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#MakeScienceCoolAgain – just how damaging is scientific inaccessibility?
The March for Science took place in cities across the world yesterday, with Washington’s protest seeing tens of thousands in attendance. People poured onto the streets in defiance of the impending budget cuts to research, vocalising the importance of science both on personal, and universal levels. However, in the midst of this positive solidarity, I was particularly struck…
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2017 General Election
EJ Oakley
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Brutalism’s revival: The forgotten ethics
Brutalism, identified by its chunky peculiarity and concrete oddity is both adored and loathed, understood and condemned. But as its national demolition is routinely being called for, an insurgence in its popularity has emerged, only to illuminate the current isolation between politics and architecture – a relationship once intrinsic to our fabric of life.
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The Great Brexit War
EJ Oakley
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