Connected Cultures

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, April 29th 2023. Cymbeline is an especially rare Shakespearean treat. This play is harder than any other to...

The Barbican Centre, 27th April 2023. Review. Lydia West, star of It’s A Sin and Inside Man, gives a commanding performance in this ...

by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. Review. A Spell of Good Things finally arrives after a spell of great expectation. Many are still reeling from...

By Eleanor Catton, Review. Ten years after The Luminaries, the blockbuster saga of the 1860s gold rush in Hokitika, Eleanor Catton takes...

The fifth annual virtual ceremony, recognising excellence in Creative Culture...and Sport. 1. Theatre Winner: As You Like It, Soho Place...

Review Eden is a bit of an outlier in my recent history of reading. I’ve immersed myself deeply in historical fiction, British and...

Royal Shakespeare Theatre. April 2022. Review. Finally! Two years, two lockdowns and two postponements later, these two Shakespeare plays...

by Armando Alemdar Ara, at the Zari Gallery, Fitzrovia, London. From realism to surrealism to abstract and back to realism. This is...

by Elif Shafak Review When viewing Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, the conventional response is that the skeletal subject in the...

Review. Swan Song is one of those movies that is simply not one of those movies. This film is extraordinarily powerful and moving. At...

Interview with Ishika Guha. For the first major feature of 2022 I have chosen to explore a style of painting that is increasingly...

Revival / Review. Celebrating a classic, rip-roaringly entertaining musical then and now. Stopping off in the West End, a dash across to...

The fourth annual virtual ceremony, celebrating excellence in Artistic Creativity and outstanding contributions to Social Justice. This...

Edited by Nancy Adimora and Ore Agbaje-Williams. Published by the Borough press. Review. I turn to books to learn, to engage, to enjoy....

The Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington, 4th September. Review. “All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told...” ...but this...

The Journey North. The summer of ’21 and everything is getting back to normal. Except it isn’t. Still, we felt bold enough to take a tour...

Sheep and the Forgotten Lion. Given the pandemic, we have chosen somewhere as remote as possible. Full of beautiful countryside and...

Bring Me Sunshine. Morecambe Bay sounds pleasant. Given a high tide and a sunny day it might be quite perfect for a day at the seaside....

25th Anniversary Event. In many ways Connected Cultures is inspired by The South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg is the ultimate role model as a...

The latest English fiasco? Or just another one of those things we aren’t very good at? The latest being penalties. Again. This time just...