As one of the Bard’s lesser-known and infrequently commissioned problem plays, Propeller’s production of The Winter’s Tale makes us question why it does not carry the same status as your typical Shakespearian tour-de-force.
Author Archives: Laura Connor
Review: I, Malvolio
Malvolio’s jarring threat at the close of Twelfth Night, to become “revenged on the whole pack of you”, reaches fruition in Tim Crouch’s unsettling solo performance in The Crucible’s Studio.
Review: The Old Sweet Shop
Everything about The Old Sweet Shop in Nether Edge whiffs of romanticism: from the name to the location to the ethos to the artists. Their new five-year anniversary exhibition fulfils its romantic image exactingly.
Review: The Other Side – Ian Breakwell
You may be forgiven for anticipating that an exhibition displaying elderly couples ballroom dancing at an East Sussex seaside resort would be less than exciting. But it is precisely this element of simplicity and banality that makes Ian Breakwell’s multi-faceted exhibition, combining a double-screen video installation with postcard-picturesque photographs and memoirs, so enthralling.