Connected Cultures

Things like this never happen to England. Or rather, they never happen for England. But we have just won the Cricket World Cup. Oh my!...

Women of the world unite and...fight? Review: Shakespeare's Globe, 5th March 2019 I cannot recall exactly when, but at some point I gave...

Probing nationality, race, gender and universality Much has been made of Richard as the great play about England. This seems rather bold....

The First Annual Connected Cultures Awards 2018 Recognising excellence, as perceived in the Connected Cultures world, defined by...

The Inaugural Connected Cultures Special Award for Cultural Connectivity 2018 With this award we are celebrating excellence in Cultural...

Connected Cultures Favourites: A selective review of the year, focusing on the words, names and phrases that have found a special place...

In my review of the production at the Globe Theatre in the autumn of 2018, I posited the theory that Othello is not essentially about...

Part 3 of a special 3 part feature on Michelle Obama’s historic conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London: how we celebrated,...

Part 2 of a 3 part feature on the historic conversation between Michelle Obama and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London. Here: the...

Part 1 of a special 3 part feature on the historic conversation between Michelle Obama and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London. Here: the...

When I booked tickets for Hamlet at the Hackney Empire I was expecting the play to fall somewhere within the Conjectured Cultures brief,...

Cultural connections in the Land of the Frango Summer 2018. Time for one last vacational fling on the continent where I still belong, but...

In profile In mid-May, to launch her book The Girl Who Smiled Beads in the UK, Clemantine was at Foyles in Charing Cross Road, an...

by Clemantine Wamariya Review As well as being an inspirational speaker and humanitarian, Clemantine Wamariya is a born storyteller. A...

Connections and Opportunities Introduction “Ballet Black is Britain’s most diverse and daring ballet company. Not only do they open up...

Review The Suit and A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream The Barbican, Friday 16th March 2018 "The course of true love never did run...

Essentially, Black Panther is a Marvel superhero film, and one of the best. But it transcends genre. It’s a fantasy adventure. A sci-fi...

Early Shakes Chancing his arm with a tragi-comedy, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus early in his career after initially coming up with...

Contemporising Shakespeare Dressed for the occasion: Sope Dirisu as Coriolanus (RSC, via Twitter) “I would rather you just said ‘thank...

Culture abounds at cricket matches. The three match series between England and West Indies is providing a marvellous opportunity for...