Saturday Review - Love and Friendship, Cornelia Parker - Found, Midsummer Night's Dream, Simon Armitage, The Threepenny Opera
Whit Stillman takes on an early Jane Austen epistolary novella, Love and Friendship; a film full of wicked women and gullible men Cornelia Parker's asked 60 artists to submit items to an exhibition of found objects at London's Foundling Museum. The man who revived Doctor Who for the BBC -Russell T Davis - turns his attentions to an all-star version TV of Midsummer Night's Dream Simon Armitage has translated another Middle English poem; Pearl. It's the tale of a man addressing a daughter who died as an infant and returns as a bride of Christ Rory Kinnear plays Macheath in the National Theatre's production of Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Tusa, Kamila Shamsie and Nihal. The producer is Oliver Jones.
Published on Saturday, 28th May 2016.
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