Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity in humansI imagine the curriculum has changed since my day but…
Park Bench review – innovative show starts online and ends on stage
Park theatre, LondonTori-Allen Martin’s two-hander opens with the audience watching at home – then the second half is performed in personThe concept is the strongest part of Tori Allen-Martin’s two-act play, the first half of which we watch prerecorded…
‘Gender is a kind of haunting’: Jennifer Mills explores the queer potential of the ghost story in The Airways
Miles Franklin-shortlisted author’s new novel follows a ghost who can inhabit different bodies in a reflective take on the genreIt’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that the chief protagonist of Jennifer Mills’s latest novel dies. It is fleeting, fragmented…
The Guardian view on fruit bowls from ancient Egypt: touching the past | Editorial
The simplest artefact can spark as much emotion as gold or grand monumentsA find of ancient fruit baskets – still with their plump doum fruits inside – attracted headlines last week. Around 2,400 years old, they were discovered off the coast of Egypt a…
Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video
The social media platform was once a favourite of artists and photographers, but a shift towards TikTok-type videos and shopping could leave them looking for a new home onlineIn late July, hobbyist photographer and self-proclaimed “sunrise hunter” Sam …
Medicine review – Domhnall Gleeson despairs in absurdist institutional limbo
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival’s theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh’s flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy in a psychiatric hospitalEver since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nes…
Actor Niamh Algar: ‘Broken characters are the more rewarding ones’
From The Virtues to Raised By Wolves, the Irish actor has a knack for complex roles. As she stars in a new British horror and a TV drama, she discusses working with Shane Meadows and boxing her way on to Ridley Scott’s radarNiamh Algar is sitting in fr…
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How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
Jennifer Coolidge: ‘I was fatalistic… I assumed Covid was going to win’
The Hollywood star on almost saying no to her new hit HBO drama White Lotus, doing sex scenes in her 50s – and pretending to be a HemingwayBoston-born Jennifer Coolidge, 59, trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and joined improv comedy trou…