Arts articles
Hew Locke Beyond the Sea Wall A Solo Show This elegiac show comprises new and recent works across various media such as sculpture, paint, photographs, found objects and share certificates. Locke connects ideas of past with present; good fortune with bad fortune; and childhood memories with recent experiences in Guyana. Last year Locke’s installation For […]
Bashment Housewives by playwright Tennesa Young The hopes, dreams, and every-day problems of young Black women in today’s Britain are shown at their most honest, and most hilarious, in Bashment Housewives on Sunday 5 October, as sensational playwright Tennesa Young brings her latest creation to The Drum. Bashment Housewives is an explosive, ghetto-fabulous rags-to-riches comedy […]
UK Premiere of The House That Will Not Stand By Marcus Gardley Directed by Indhu Rubasingham "You may be the wealthiest colored woman in New Orleans but you built this house on sand, lies and dead bodies." New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana’s ‘free people of […]
Icons, Innovation and Industry at 2014 CaribbeanTales Film Festival The 2014 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) was indeed a landmark occasion as this year the festival broke boundaries in gaining additional recognition for the creativity and culture of the Caribbean. The festival which ran alongside the Toronto International Film Festival highlighted the region’s icons as […]
Lenny Henry in Rudy’s Rare Records Starring Lenny Henry, and based on the BBC Radio 4 series, this touching, toe-tapping comedy is set in an old reggae record shop in Birmingham, which is owned by the irrepressible Rudy Sharpe with the assistance of his long-suffering son Adam. With Rudy’s chaotic “if it ain’t on the […]