Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmBobcat Goldthwait on God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait is best remembered as 'that shrill bloke from the Police Academy movies'. He also happens to be one of America's most distinct filmmakers. The Skinny speaks to him about his latest black comedy, God Bless America Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreMatthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 3D
This ravishing production from Sadler’s Wells in London is at once contemporary and utterly timeless. Bourne’s re-telling of the classic ballet h... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreBeckett Double Bill @ The Citizens Theatre
Everything about Dominic Hill’s re-staging of Krapp’s Last Tape is bigger - the bleak comedy, the gesticulations and sighs, even the leading man.... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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27 @ The Citizens Theatre
American Epidemiologist Dr Richard Garfield (Patrick Drury) and his team travel to the West of Scotland to persuade the residents of a convent to participate... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreAnn Boleyn @ EFT
On a pristine, beautifully lit stage, a barefoot, ghostly Anne Boleyn makes her entrance. In classical RSC style she addresses the audience, challenging them... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreTosca @ Theatre Royal
Sex and death, politics and religion - opera is well suited to the big themes, and Giacomo Puccini was better suited than most to his chosen medium. Tosca re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012
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Motherland @ The Arches
Nic Green has forged a strong reputation for herself on the back of Trilogy, her critically acclaimed feminist meditation from 2009 - now comes Motherland. F... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Thatcher's Children @ The Arches
Old-school satire is increasingly hard to come by today, but Gary Gardiner seems hell-bent on bringing it back.Last year, his Arches Live! show focused on th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Forfeit @ Oran Mor
At first glance, it could be any dysfunctional family - strong matriarch, bratty wee sister and weary older one bickering over the bill in a Wetherspoons. Ho... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Music
BEAK> – >>
BEAK> could be considered something of a self-indulgent side project for Portishead's Geoff Barrow; a jam-band for a frustrated krautrock afficionado to m... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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21 Jump Street
I had a dream. Not the usual one where I'm sent back to school with – for an unexplained but apparently plausible reason – no clothes on. No, thi... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Skelethon is the first album from Aesop Rock to be entirely self-produced, but the template hasn't fluctuated much from the mercurial, experimental approach ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
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Dub Pistols – Worshipping The Dollar
Dub Pistols are a force to be reckoned with live, and in the setting of a summer festival there are few better bands to rock out to, with their crowd-ple... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
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Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Predicting the Dirty Projectors’ next step is a pointless task. Led by idiosyncratic frontman David Longstreth, the Brooklyn-based quintet explore ro... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
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Paul Heaton – Presents: The 8th
From the live debut of Bjork’s Biophilia to an Amadou and Mariam gig performed in a pitch-black venue, the 2011 Manchester International Festival h... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012