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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theupcoming.co.uk | Georgia Howlett
Culture Cinema & Tv Show reviews Black Doves | Show review Release date 5th December 2024 Black Doves is a winking Netflix spy thriller not afraid to get some blood on the tinsel this Christmas. The brainchild of coveted screenwriter Joe Barton (of Giri/Haji fame), the series is such an obvious win it has already been renewed for a second season.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
seeingdance.com | Georgia Howlett
The Place, LondonOctober 22, 2024In Fairy Tales by Czech physical theatre and dance collective, POCKETART, fantasy figures are embodied and distorted, sometimes beyond recognition, and sometimes into feasible versions of women we are and see all around us. Fairy Tales offers audiences a series of landscapes, conceptual, but nonetheless suggesting a myriad of narratives.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
seeingdance.com | Georgia Howlett
The Place, LondonOctober 8, 2024National Dance Company Wales’ fierce double bill, Frontiers, features work by Melanie Lane and artistic director Matthew William Robinson, and affirms the company as a formidable collective of confident, intuitive artists. Lane’s Skinners is a seriously creepy start. The cast of seven don white capes with colourful outfits printed on the fronts and backs, an imitation of normal dress.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
The Watermark has been a long time in the making. Upon reading Sam Mills’ mammoth novel of metafiction, a romance dragged through literary metamorphosis, it is clear why. Augustus Fate, an enigmatic author living a reclused life, captures people’s psyche for characters in his book. To this end, Rachel and Jaime become trapped in novels, while their bodies remain unconscious in the real world.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
Louise is suspended between two communities, deaf and hearing, never solidifying her place in either. Language is a treacherous landscape that Louise navigates, and conversations, constructed by lip reading, are rife with voids in understanding. The doctors assure her that a cochlear implant is the only way forward.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
seeingdance.com | Georgia Howlett
The Old Bailey, LondonJune 22, 2024As if to obey the prestigious context, the audience sit tense in The Old Bailey. The Royal Courts of Justice as a venue for dance instils awe, respect and a pin drop silence. Chiara Bersani’s L’Animale, a new take on Michel Fokine’s The Dying Swan, is one of three dance pieces at LIFT 2024, a theatre festival distinguished by its inspired use of non-traditional venues.
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May 27, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
Imagine explaining Netflix to somebody from 1847 – it's no easy feat, let alone attempting to explain World War Two to people who never imagined the World War would soon become plural. The Ministry of Time by British-Cambodian author Kaliane Bradley is feverishly anticipated, following her award-winning short stories; think romance in the context of befuddling, existential and wildly amusing time travel.
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May 24, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
Monstrum proves that new talent Lottie Mills was a well deserving winner of the BBC Young Writer’s Award 2020. Writing from a lived experience of disability, Mills’ debut short story collection employs dark fantasy to cast light on the complexities of otherness. Mills uses visceral, textured, and thematic prose with finesse and simplicity. Her mythological tales might be fleeting, but they spread themselves far and wide in the readers conscience.
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May 1, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
We all have places, sounds and smells rooted in a time that feel irresistibly nostalgic – but what does nostalgia actually mean? Historian Agnes Arnold-Forster comes very close to pinning down an elusive feeling. Nostalgia, it turns out, carries with it a restless history, and a fickle tendency to shapeshift under the whims of society. Arnold-Forster herself is restless in covering all grounds.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
nbmagazine.co.uk | Georgia Howlett |Sophie Percival
Kibogo, by French-Rwandan Scholastique Mukasonga, is a shrewd, spectral recounting of colonial Rwanda, and the collision of beliefs that occurred there. Deftly compressed into four interlinking parts, the narrative is traced and retraced from a different perspective in each. Rwanda is in peril after Ruzagayura, a catastrophic famine, strikes during WW2. But for decades prior to this, the Rwandans have been navigating the eradication of their ancient beliefs by European Christianity.
