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Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens for World AIDS Day

Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a stunning song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters‘ Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who’ve died from … Continue reading

Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens : a richer and more diverse Inheritance

Elegies for Angels, Punks AND Raging Queens ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London In a year in which The Inheritance claimed every kind of London theatre accolade it’s a tough job to put on an AIDS crisis era play without inviting comparison. Happily, when contrasted rather than compared, Elegies sets its own standard. It is different … Continue reading

ELENA

In Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other. The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to … Continue reading

Eleven Dancers in a permanent state of nudity

Celebrated Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits has been creating dance productions and performance pieces for his own internationally renowned company Compagnie Thor for over 25 years now. Their very inspired work is frequently deemed controversial as Smits insists on pushing the envelope as far as he can. He shows a fascination in his work that explores our … Continue reading

Eli Lieb is so f–king sick of Hollywood

Eli Lieb has had enough of Hollywood. Been there, done that. Now he’s back home in his heartland in Iowa where he can feel really happy again to freely write his new upcoming album. Check out his new video Hollywood, which we cannot stop playing . As long as Eli is happy, then … Continue reading