Capturing the latent aggression in male relationships, Dealers Choice; even twelve years later Patrick Marber’s first play still thrills audiences with the story of five men gambling far more than they can afford to lose. Set in a London restaurant where its owner, the highly restrained Stephen (a brilliantly understated Malcolm Sinclair) holds weekly poker [...]
Last Sunday night, I (half heartedly) put on my chicest frock and my edgiest makeup and headed down to Boombox. Arriving after nine, I was grateful for being on the list, as far fiercer outfits were being turned away to see Vancouver’s own Stinkmitt perform at Boombox. Billed as irreverent and subversive, Stinkmitt did not [...]
It’s a much hackneyed cliché that in Warhol’s world everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. What Warhol couldn’t have imagined that back in the 80s/70s was the power of the internet and its ability to create an endless pool of celebrity wannabes. Cory Kennedy, internet it girl and LA club urchin is currently in [...]
Hofesh Shechter’s new dance production Uprising, begins with a fragmentary glimpse into the evolution of the modern male psyche beginning with such brutal force the audience is snapped into a heightened state of consciousness. In uprising the mood changes so dramatically from jocularity to something more sinister within an instant. He creates a hurtling dynamic, [...]