They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …
Tag: Theatre
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story
I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian …
Crave at Chichester Festival
I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I’m still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed …
Theatre, Liberalism and Racism
The toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol by Black Lives Matter protestors over the summer has sparked an important debate about the ways we remember and commemorate history. I’ve been thinking about ways the performing arts contribute to …
The Domesticated Survival Play
Ella Road’s The Phlebotomist (currently playing at Hampstead Theatre) is part of a growing trend of plays dealing with surviving the everyday. It has thematic resonances with Mike Bartlett’s Game, Philip Ridley’s Radiant Vermin and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, …