Cymbeline
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, April 29th 2023. Cymbeline is an especially rare Shakespearean treat. This play is harder than any other to...
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Eddie Hewitt
- May 1
- 3 min
A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction
The Barbican Centre, 27th April 2023. Review. Lydia West, star of It’s A Sin and Inside Man, gives a commanding performance in this ...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Mar 4
- 4 min
A Spell of Good Things
by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. Review. A Spell of Good Things finally arrives after a spell of great expectation. Many are still reeling from...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Birnam Wood
By Eleanor Catton, Review. Ten years after The Luminaries, the blockbuster saga of the 1860s gold rush in Hokitika, Eleanor Catton takes...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Dec 26, 2022
- 10 min
Annual Awards 2022
The fifth annual virtual ceremony, recognising excellence in Creative Culture...and Sport. 1. Theatre Winner: As You Like It, Soho Place...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
Eden
Review Eden is a bit of an outlier in my recent history of reading. I’ve immersed myself deeply in historical fiction, British and...
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Eddie Hewitt
- May 7, 2022
- 5 min
Henry VI: Rebellion / Wars of the Roses
Royal Shakespeare Theatre. April 2022. Review. Finally! Two years, two lockdowns and two postponements later, these two Shakespeare plays...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Introspection
by Armando Alemdar Ara, at the Zari Gallery, Fitzrovia, London. From realism to surrealism to abstract and back to realism. This is...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Apr 11, 2022
- 4 min
The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak Review When viewing Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, the conventional response is that the skeletal subject in the...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Jan 26, 2022
- 4 min
Swan Song
Review. Swan Song is one of those movies that is simply not one of those movies. This film is extraordinarily powerful and moving. At...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Jan 9, 2022
- 6 min
Rainbows and Fireflies
Interview with Ishika Guha. For the first major feature of 2022 I have chosen to explore a style of painting that is increasingly...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Dec 31, 2021
- 4 min
Anything Goes
Revival / Review. Celebrating a classic, rip-roaringly entertaining musical then and now. Stopping off in the West End, a dash across to...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Dec 27, 2021
- 10 min
Annual Awards 2021
The fourth annual virtual ceremony, celebrating excellence in Artistic Creativity and outstanding contributions to Social Justice. This...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Nov 6, 2021
- 10 min
Of This Our Country
Edited by Nancy Adimora and Ore Agbaje-Williams. Published by the Borough press. Review. I turn to books to learn, to engage, to enjoy....
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Eddie Hewitt
- Sep 5, 2021
- 5 min
The Merchant of Venice
The Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington, 4th September. Review. “All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told...” ...but this...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Aug 3, 2021
- 5 min
Travelogue: Lancashire 1
The Journey North. The summer of ’21 and everything is getting back to normal. Except it isn’t. Still, we felt bold enough to take a tour...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Aug 2, 2021
- 4 min
Travelogue: Lancashire 2
Sheep and the Forgotten Lion. Given the pandemic, we have chosen somewhere as remote as possible. Full of beautiful countryside and...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Aug 1, 2021
- 6 min
Travelogue: Lancashire 3
Bring Me Sunshine. Morecambe Bay sounds pleasant. Given a high tide and a sunny day it might be quite perfect for a day at the seaside....
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Eddie Hewitt
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
The South Bank Show Awards
25th Anniversary Event. In many ways Connected Cultures is inspired by The South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg is the ultimate role model as a...
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Eddie Hewitt
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Celebrating not winning
The latest English fiasco? Or just another one of those things we aren’t very good at? The latest being penalties. Again. This time just...
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