Helen Hawkins
Journalist at The Arts Desk
Developmental Editor, Copyeditor and Proofreader at Freelance
Contemporary romance writer, editor, mum. RNA member. https://t.co/9xfw4Vvy2X Rep'd by @saskialeach_/@KNLitAgency https://t.co/bMe03J2TOt
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3 days ago |
theartsdesk.com | Helen Hawkins
There is so much that is right about Jonathan Kent’s new production of House of Games – the casting, the staging, the direction. But the flaw it can’t overcome is that the 1987 David Mamet screenplay on which Richard Bean based this stage version in 2010 has been transformed from a vicious psychologically tough caper-movie into an almost jaunty puzzle-play, its sharp teeth removed.
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1 week ago |
theartsdesk.com | Helen Hawkins
When Mark Rosenblatt was preparing his debut play, the miseries of the assault on Gaza were still over the horizon. Now they are here, another terrible moment in human history that resonates all through Giant.Since the play opened at the Royal Court last year, that ugly hum has grown even louder. Now transferred to the West End, it could have been written to give dramatic form to this most incendiary of talking points.
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1 week ago |
theartsdesk.com | Helen Hawkins
The trunk in the title is a luxury item, worth 50 million won – just north of £27,000 – shown sinking in deep water in the opening credits. It weaves through one of the classiest recent collaborations between Netflix and Korean TV, a haunting psychological drama that’s balm to the soul after the mob-handed violence on offer here at home. Slugging it out in The Trunk are two alpha females, in a setup that on paper sounds like something out of Black Mirror.
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2 weeks ago |
theartsdesk.com | Helen Hawkins
In the Stygian darkness of a bare room, a table on a low platform with a light hanging overhead starts to emerge. Then a door briefly opens at the back of the space and the figure that has entered and sat down at the table also begins to emerge. When the stage lighting goes on, this tableau out of a Bacon painting sharpens and we can properly scrutinise the man.
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2 weeks ago |
theartsdesk.com | Helen Hawkins
The makers of The Extraordinary Miss Flower are billing it as a “performance film”, a subspecies of the concert-movie and stablemate of the fictive biopic 20,000 Days on Earth, about Nick Cave, from the same film-makers. It’s one part arty documentary to two parts music video, both a daughter’s tribute to her mother and a singer’s elaborate way of promoting her latest album.
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