"Imagine if the Pet Shop Boys were played by the Chuckle Brothers," says Simon Hickson, attempting to describe the characters he and Trevor Neal play in their new podcast, Strangeness in Space.
Smartphones, the report claimed, use nearly 13 tons of water when being manufactured
Playwright James Graham is the very much the man of the hour - literally, if you’re reading this review on 7 May while waiting for election news. His play The Vote, at the Donmar, is also showing live on Channel 4, dramatising in real-time the last 90 minutes before polls close; across town, the Bush hosts a transfer of another political outing. The Angry Brigade opened last autumn in Plymouth, but arrives here with a largely new cast.
Soprano Barbara Hannigan is one of our most brilliant and versatile singing actresses, as comfortable with Boulez and Ligeti as with Mozart and Handel, and she’s added a new string to her bow.
The results of a sex survey are busting the myth that Britons are sexually repressed, by revealing how the majority of women have lived out their sexual fantasies.
As vilified, unpopular and mediocre as many of our politicians are, it will fall to this generation to construct a new constitutional settlement for the United Kingdom. In some respects, the work is under way: our MPs have begun to tackle the extent and shape of further devolution in Scotland and so-called “English Votes for English Laws”. As soon as Friday they may be called on to investigate how a legitimate government can be formed in the Commons when no party or plausible combination of groups can command a majority. Читать дальше...