When you’ve been around for a while, you pick up some moves. Now into their fourth decade of performance, musical comedy trio Fascinating Aïda demonstrate many a nifty turn in their latest run, Charm Offensive, which plays at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall until January 10, following a national tour. Funny, clever and unexpectedly […]
On Friday December 13, four environmental activists with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a company engaged in fracking and tar-sands extraction of which the Keystone XL pipeline is a major example. Two of them chained themselves to the building’s entrance and two of them unfurled a Hunger Games-inspired […]
Another year down, another heaving goodie bag of cabaret goodness to trawl through in the name of the fool’s errand of selecting the year’s finest. I won’t pretend this is remotely objective or comprehensive – it’s just ten of the moments from 2013 that stand out for me. Let me know the bits you think […]
2014 is the twentieth anniversary of the death of Derek Jarman, one of Britain’s most erudite, esoteric, erotic and exquisite visual artists of recent generations, and as queer as a glittery dildo reading Proust. From Thatcherite satire to reimaginings of Caravaggio and Wittgenstein, videos for Pet Shop Boys to gardening in the shadow of a […]
New York’s Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) has been archiving, preserving and exhibiting a huge range of video and multimedia work since 1971. It’s basically like Aladdin’s cave with a remote control. Personally, I’m partial to a bit of Ryan Trecartin, whose domestic sagas have bits of Jack Smith’s will-to-glamour and John Waters’s fucked-up-family vibes […]
I wrote a round-up of a dozen festive cabaret shows for today’s Evening Standard. You can read the whole thing here.
This morning’s cabaret page in Time Out London will be the last one. This brings to an end a section that was created in January 2009 by its first editor, Simone Baird, from whom I took over in October 2009. It also brings to an end my working on a weekly basis for Time Out […]