Interviews

I had trouble with 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' so that made me think about how jokes work and what annoys people and why should you be allowed to say particular things, and that does dove-tail quite nicely into 'Talk Radio' Read more »

It is Mel Smith's first day in Edinburgh and something is bothering him. "When I got off the plane last night, there was this big lit-up panel and it said 'W... Read more »

It seems fairly certain that Henry Pettigrew is going to be a movie star. We don't want it to go to his head though, so best not to let him read this. Of cou... Read more »

Glamour has come back into the club world of with a bang, through the medium of burlesque. Men and women are now able to cast of their bland clubbing uniform... Read more »

There is something intrinsically appealing about 'The Jungle Book': the wild jungle setting and brushes with a dangerous tiger awaken primal instincts and the call to nature, but the very colonial ideals imposed on Kipling's jungle make us feel safe. Read more »

an artform that forces us to focus and challenge that complacency ought to be valued, not dismissed out of hand Read more »