The Grand Gesture – Reviewed
Jennie Tsai arrived at the Liverpool Playhouse in search of a grand gesture; she found that and more in a new production of a banned Russian play… Lively, light and literary – The...
Dance! Dance! Dance!
C James Fagan finds himself surprised and seduced by Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill… There’s a heightened sense of excitement as I enter the Unity’s theatre space for Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill. Once the...
Of Saints and Go-Go Boys — Reviewed
C James Fagan steels himself for an ‘erotically charged’ evening of ‘the abject, the shocking, and the profane’… Somewhere tonight three people are setting out on a destructive path. Caught in a hermetic world,...
Dialogues: The Walker Art Gallery and The Royal Standard
A new exhibition occupies gallery space at two very different Liverpool institutions, but to what end, asks Mike Pinnington… The Walker Art Gallery and The Royal Standard, on the face of it at...
A Voice Heard By All: Dickie Beau, Lost in Trans
Hailed as a “Performance phenomenon and gender disillusionist”, C James Fagan attempts to describe the work of artist and performer Dickie Beau… I’ve spoken before of taxonomy, the systems we use to catalogue and...
Art Turning Left — Previewed
A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool seeks to identify links between art and left-wing ideas, finds Fred Johnson… There is a long-enduring image in popular culture and political satire of the liberal leftie...
1984 – Reviewed
Amid the realities of wikileaks and spying on allies at the highest levels, Orwell’s dystopian vision seems pertinent as ever, says Fred Johnson… What to expect of a new adaptation of Orwell’s famous, politically...
In Review: Frieze 2013
Frieze veteran Sarah Creed visits 2013′s iteration and finds some green shoots of change for the good… 2013 marked the 11th edition of the Frieze Art Fair in London. Containing 152 of the...
1984: Is George Orwell Still Relevant?
In light of a new stage adaptation, Fred Johnson analyses present day surveillance and proposes that the reality isn’t as awful as Orwell made it out to be… George Orwell’s novel 1984, first published in 1949,...