Arts & Culture
Theatre - Sunday, September 12, 2010 6:06 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: Clybourne Park (The Royal Court)
Bruce Norris's new play, currently showing at the Royal Court theatre in London, examines the intersection between race and property by focusing on one Chicago house over a 50-year period. It's an intriguing set-up, but does it work? Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, went to find out.
Arts & Culture, Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance - Friday, September 10, 2010 22:08 - 5 Comments
Deserter’s Songs: A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
In the first of a new series of columns on music, 'Deserter's Songs', Dave Bell discusses his fascination with what, he admits, is a "very boring" piece of music: Talking Heads' 'Heaven'.
This is a song, Bell argues, that epitomises "pop as Samuel Beckett might write it: tedious, beautiful and desperate".
Arts & Culture, Columns, CounterSpin, Politics - Sunday, September 5, 2010 2:10 - 8 Comments
CounterSpin: Should we trust the newspaper?
In the first of his 'Counterspin' series of columns, Ceasefire Deputy Editor Musab Younis examines the effect that increasingly concentrated media ownership is having on the reliability and accuracy of news reporting. He asks whether systematic distortion could be linked to the ownership structure of the press - and, if so, what prospects there are for a new popular, democratic media.
Arts & Culture, Theatre - Wednesday, September 1, 2010 16:14 - 1 Comment
Theatre review: Earthquakes in London/The Prince of Homburg
In this week's theatre, Gareth King reviews 'Earthquakes in London' at the National, and 'The Prince of Homburg' at the Donmar. The two productions might be equal in their ambitions but only one clearly delivers on its promise.
Features, Ideas, Music & Dance - Sunday, August 29, 2010 23:54 - 7 Comments
Formed a band? Made a record? Now what?
Every starting band knows the situation: you record something, spend more than you can afford on getting a few hundred professionally-printed copies made, and then you spend ages wait for sales that never come. As someone who's seen it all before, Alex Andrews shares top 5 tips on how to sell your record the clever way.
Arts & Culture, Features, Film & TV - Saturday, August 28, 2010 18:23 - 0 Comments
Film Review: The Infidel
The Infidel is a comedy whose subject matter includes Muslims, Jews, cultural identity, religious intolerance, clerical hypocrisy, political islamism, violent extremism, anti-semitism, media mendacity and plain old-fashioned racism. Upon its release on DVD earlier this month, Hicham Yezza reviews it.
Arts & Culture, Books, Features - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 23:23 - 0 Comments
Book review – Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans
Kosovo's quest for independence throughout a turbulent 20th century is the subject of a book that aims to disentangle myths from realities. Omayr Ghani, Ceasefire's Political Editor, is impressed at the scholarship but sceptical of the analysis.
Arts & Culture, Theatre - Monday, August 23, 2010 20:56 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre)
The Great Game is a mini-cycle of plays that is intense, powerful and evocative. As it enters the last week of its London run, before a move accross the Atlantic, Lucy Shaw went to see it.
Arts & Culture, Theatre - Sunday, August 22, 2010 21:08 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: All My Sons (Apollo Theatre)
The latest production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons is a "revival of a revival", by the same team that produced its previous National Theatre staging in 2000. It is a tale of two grieving parents (David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker) of a World War II pilot assumed dead in combat seven years previously, who have to face up to the truth of their past over the course of a single day. The production has received impressively unanimous critical acclaim. Gareth King went to see it and discovered why.
Arts & Culture, Features - Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:09 - 1 Comment
Arts & Culture: Redo Pakistan
With Pakistan now a major item on the news agenda – instability, violence, and recently, of course, the devastating floods – what hope is there for Pakistani artists? Can they hope to address the situation of the country in a way that could possibly make a difference? Is the contemporary art world just too Eurocentric to let them in?
Musab Younis, Ceasefire deputy editor, speaks to the curators of an innovative new art project, ‘Redo Pakistan’, which has issued a call to artists to ‘Declare War Against the Present Time.’
