When Ryan Gosling presented Saoirse Ronan with a Hollywood Film Award for Brooklyn, he pointed out that when he was 13 his performance experience was limited: “I was a back up dancer for my Elvis impersonating uncle”. Ronan, on the other hand, was nominated for an Academy Award. The Oscars rumour mill is abuzz with the inkling that, […]
Everyone knows that Everest is dangerous, sometimes even fatally so. Yet, this doesn’t stop adventurers, adrenaline junkies and fantasists from dreaming of reaching the world’s highest summit. Despite knowing the danger – or perhaps more often, because of the sense of danger – the peak of Everest draws desiring mountaineers like moths to a flame. […]
Often held up as the ‘female Hamlet’, Hedda Gabler exists in a tradition that too easily resembles a desert in terms of female leading roles. Thus, the comparison is not thoughtless. In Hedda, not only is the actor offered a central, title-wielding role, but also one riddled with conflicts, pressures and a story-arc to rival […]
Seeing shows at Talbot Rice always feels slightly like opening a door onto Narnia. With one unobtrusive entryway leading onto the stairwell straight from a cobbled street, and the other tucked into a corner of Old College, emerging into the spacious, light-filled first room can leave you blinking at the snow-white glare. Flanked by the […]
Sometimes it can be difficult to reconcile a love of hip-hop with feminist ideals, or a taste for dark, bass-filled rooms and an interest in intricate, classically influenced poetry. Kate Tempest makes both extremely easy. This is probably because Tempest’s life, on the page, seems a mass of what would conventionally be seen as contradictions. […]