This film lays out the impressive staging of a dramatic tour but is intent on capturing its subject from only the best anglesThis documentary opens with the old James Baldwin quotation about artists being here to disturb the peace, alongside a montage …
@Home review – Didy Veldman explores where the heart is
Gulbenkian theatre, CanterburyActions speak louder than words as a talented cast take a guided tour of our most intimate relations Didy Veldman’s @Home grew around the idea of being “at home”, but to think of it as a dance about that idea would be a mi…
Warnings distinctly British children’s TV could vanish if subsidy ends
Government weighing whether to continue fund that covers costs of kids’ shows for public service broadcastersBritish children could miss out on the next Peppa Pig or Bob the Builder if the government decides to stop subsidising television shows for you…
Twenty photographs of the week
Haitian migrants try to reach the US, the Taliban in Kabul, the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma and Paris fashion week – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
Antigone review – gender switch sparks striking take on Sophocles
Mercury theatre, ColchesterWendy Kweh plays Creon as a politically minded queen in Merlynn Tong’s adaptation steeped in grief and decayThe chorus has been banished, the cast of five has no room for Eurydice and, most strikingly, Creon is a queen in Mer…
Bali without tourists: once-bustling hotspots now eerie and overgrown – a photo essay
Tourism on the island came to a standstill at the beginning of the pandemic. Putu Sayoga captures the impact on a once thriving industryThe sun is slowly disappearing on Jimbaran beach. The restaurants lining the beach have started to turn on their lig…
Archbishop apologises for steamy video filmed in Spanish cathedral
Video shows rapper C Tangana and singer Nathy Peluso grind against each other inside Toledo CathedralThe archbishop of Toledo has apologised to offended Roman Catholics after one of Spain’s most famous cathedrals was used as a location for a raunchy vi…
The Guardian view on children’s books: take them seriously | Editorial
Good literature is fundamental to young people’s development. We must not devalue itGood children’s literature is a serious business. Not serious as in boring or “improving”, but serious in attention and ambition, serious about beauty and wonder, about…
The return of Adele: industry bills new album 30 as ‘huge global event’
Rumoured for release in mid-November, record is being tipped to outdo new LPs by Ed Sheeran and ColdplayThere has been a rush to define the remaining months of 2021. It will be a winter of discontent, of supply chain disruption and potential blackouts;…
Richard H Kirk obituary
Experimental electronic musician and founding member of the Sheffield-based band Cabaret VoltaireRichard H Kirk, who has died aged 65, was a key figure in the development of British electronic and DIY music, from his co-founding of the Sheffield-based …