You match on a dating app because the technology does not recognise borders and for some precious weeks Boaz and George try not to either. What’s a measly fence with a hole in it compared to the strength of their connection? What’s 20km?
You match on a dating app because the technology does not recognise borders and for some precious weeks Boaz and George try not to either. What’s a measly fence with a hole in it compared to the strength of their connection? What’s 20km?
We’re living in a day whereby the taboo of mental health is gradually being challenged, well-being something we recognise as crucial moving forward. An exploration of Black mental health, supplied with the recommendation of helpful resources made possible by charity Black Minds Matter, Running with Lions pushes the topic of mental health centre stage, showcasing the impact of a family member’s diagnosis of Bipolar within a British Jamaican household.
New musical Broken Wings inverts the classic immigrant story by centring the return to the mother country. It’s a sequel to the American Dream where the protagonist, Khalil Gibran returns home filled with nostalgia of a past life, but soon encounters the conflict in his blended middle eastern and western values.
Love connects us all, a powerful emotion that many have captured throughout the ages through various art forms, it powers and inspires humanity. Without it, the world would be a duller place. Marking Valentine’s Day this year with the 2nd edition of their comedy showcase, BBC’s Ashley J and DJ B-Radz present Lovers & Friends, a thought provoking, light hearted, sentimental evening celebrating love in its multiple guises.
‘The decision is made at a higher management level’: archived voice recording of an agent from the Family and Community Service (FACS) in New South Wales, Australia, as they ‘remove’ a child from its mother. These, the chilling opening moments of Larissa Behrendt’s 2017 documentary After the Apology, are a fitting portent of the film to come. In a series which Barbican curator Alex Davidson describes as highlighting ‘the best, most important, most interesting and often the hardest to see’ films from indigenous Australians, After the Apology surely ranks as one of the most harrowingly painful documentaries ever made. Statistics blaze across the screen in black and white for this rare big-screen showing, giving voice to victims and the systematic trauma they have been subjected to.
The documentary film Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra is a part of the exciting Homeland programme at the Barbican this February which seeks to celebrate great Indigenous Australian filmmakers from the last three decades. This film tells the story of the Bangarra Dance Theatre Company tied up with the lives of the Page brothers, Russell, dancer and choreographer, David, composer and musical director, and Stephen, the visionary. From its inception in 1989 to the present day with Frances Rings, this film is first and foremost a celebration of the company’s extraordinary ability to spark a light with dance, music, family, culture, remembrance, and laughter when all else feels lost.
The human experience is a special one, each of us comprised of the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. The meaning of life a deep question that continues to fascinate and perplex us all. Written 20 years ago at the start of the new millennium, Caryl Churchill’s futuristic meditation on humanity, A Number, boldly explores issues of human cloning and identity. Post pandemic, the show has been re-staged for our times, provoking philosophical thought.
The stories we repeatedly tell ourselves are imperative to how we navigate life. Our school years our most formative when it comes to setting the foundations for what we’ll possibly expect in later life. An exploration of the ever moving stream of subtle messages planted within childhood, Crying in the Wilderness’ Conundrum observedly tackles the process of continual external messaging vs the internalising of such stimuli.
It’s Tuesday night in The Pit and two bald, middle-aged French men are telling a story. In many ways it’s an old story: girl meets boy, falls in love, goes on an adventure in which they lose and then find one another again. In many more immediate ways, it is not. The man to my right, Romain Bermond, is etching a park boulevard with geometric detail in real-time. Opposite him, the man to my left, Jean-Baptiste Maillet, is playing a drum kit with one hand, space-rock synths with the other and a harmonica in-between. They are Stereoptik and Stellaire is a love-story mime. It is also set in space.
Seeking inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 classic fairytale The Snow Queen, Disney’s 2013 smash hit Frozen adapted by Jennifer Lee re-imagines the magical story of the eponymous figure in the form of Elsa, a Princess-turned Queen of fictional kingdom Arendelle. Adapted into a stage musical by popular demand, the production sparkles, reminding us all of the power of imagination.