Connected Cultures

Things like this never happen to England. Or rather, they never happen for England. But we have just won the Cricket World Cup. Oh my!...

Women of the world unite and...fight? Review: Shakespeare's Globe, 5th March 2019 I cannot recall exactly when, but at some point I gave...

Probing nationality, race, gender and universality Much has been made of Richard as the great play about England. This seems rather bold....

Royal Shakespeare Company at the Garrick Theatre, London Saturday 26th January 2019 Review Cervantes is sometimes accorded a similar...

Movie Review: 5 stars The Guardian film critic Pete Bradshaw was disgruntled by the lack of balance in this film. It’s true, Queen...

Review Meliá White House Hotel, 11th to 13th January Art Rooms promised to be extra special for me this year. Having reviewed the...

Part 2: Hard to leave out... Due to the exceptionally high standard of art on display at the event, Connected Cultures is including in...

Part 3: Returning Favourites It was a great pleasure to encounter three of my all time favourite Art Rooms exhibitors again at the 2019...

Royal Shakespeare Company, The Barbican, 29th December 2018 Review One word springs to mind. Understated. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s...

The First Annual Connected Cultures Awards 2018 Recognising excellence, as perceived in the Connected Cultures world, defined by...

The Inaugural Connected Cultures Special Award for Cultural Connectivity 2018 With this award we are celebrating excellence in Cultural...

In many ways Macbeth is the most popular of Shakespeare’s Big Four tragedies. Maybe of all his plays. Hardest to get tickets for at the...

Connected Cultures Favourites: A selective review of the year, focusing on the words, names and phrases that have found a special place...

Shakespeare's Globe, Monday 8th October 2018 Review A tragedy at The Globe is invariably a triumph, especially when it’s one of the...

In my review of the production at the Globe Theatre in the autumn of 2018, I posited the theory that Othello is not essentially about...

Part 3 of a special 3 part feature on Michelle Obama’s historic conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London: how we celebrated,...

Part 2 of a 3 part feature on the historic conversation between Michelle Obama and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London. Here: the...

Part 1 of a special 3 part feature on the historic conversation between Michelle Obama and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London. Here: the...

Congratulations to Brittle Paper on hosting their second, annual, prestigious review of contemporary African literary brilliance. A huge...

Twenty Years of Cultural, Historical, Scientific, Religious, Philosophical Conversation I’m in the Purcell room at the Southbank Centre....