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Mandeep and us – Glass talks to actor Mandeep Dhillon during rehearsals for the new stage version of Anita and Me

October 6, 2015

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Mandeep Dhillon has been popping up with increasing frequency on the BBC in recent years, and is probably best known for playing Saz in the BBC3 comedy series, Some Girls, about a group of four, young...

A woman centre stage

Tara Wheeler

September 20, 2015

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As her new play, Nell Gwynn, opens at The Globe; Glass talks to award winning playwright and director Jessica Swale, about her work, women in theatre, and the alchemy of writing. Jessica Swale returns to...

Power play

Nicola Kavanagh

September 11, 2015

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“The purpose of playing,” says Hamlet, “Is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” And so it is...

Darkness and light

Samantha Kuok Leese

September 4, 2015

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China’s preeminent playwright, Cao Yu, was a catalyst for introducing spoken theatre to his country and a revolutionary of dreams. Glass discovers more about theatre’s little known star “The Sun Rises an...

No doubting this Tom – Glass meets British actor Tom Brittney

Gabriella Crewe-Read

July 21, 2015

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A lucky combination of classic good looks and on screen versatility means Tom Brittney is fast emerging as a star on the horizon, and has every chance of being here to stay. In the middle of filming original dr...

Embracing the character

Amanda Bernstein

June 30, 2015

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Actor Sacha Dhawan is no stranger to stage and screen as he started his career at the tender age of seven, having been inspired by his mother, a former model. She was an extremely modern thinking woman, who...

In the fast lane with O-T Fagbenle

Gabriella Crewe-Read

June 24, 2015

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O-T Fagbenle is a man on the move. Currently performing in the BBC One crime drama The Interceptor where he plays Special Agent Marcus “Ash” Ashton, a customs officer recruited into a secret bran...

Paradise at CLF Arts Cafe

Harry Cohen

June 19, 2015

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A sparkling, theatrical exploration of the perils of dating in the age of Tinder and infinite choice. Set inside a run-down TV studio where the final episode of dating competition Paradise is being filmed. The ...

If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?

Emily Rae Pellerin

May 7, 2015

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Known as one of the leaders of the New French dance and non-dance movements in France in the respective 1970s and 1990s, renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz will be leading London’s Tate Modern through...

Lost in deep space

Arjun Sajip

April 20, 2015

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It’s never quite clear what Ren does to her friend Jordan, but it’s something for which she is both desperate and reluctant to apologise, and so she decides to stow away on the space vessel Jordan is captaini...

Cool as a cucumber

Arjun Sajip

March 23, 2015

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Glass was delighted to catch up earlier this week with Fisayo Akinade, the actor who plays Dean in Channel 4 TV shows Cucumber and Banana (whose season finales air tomorrow). Dean is an effervescent, sexually a...

Bally’s Wes Anderson-inspired AW15 collection

Kim Ing

March 9, 2015

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An attitude of nonchalance and retrospective eccentricity, as inspired by the films of Wes Anderson, provide the platform for Bally’s AW Women's collection. Bally’s three principles of Innovation, Functi...

Books, babies and Banana – Glass talks to actor Georgia Henshaw about her brilliant career

Arjun Sajip

February 12, 2015

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Glass had a lot of fun chatting to Georgia Henshaw, the animated 21-year-old who cut her teeth on Casualty, The Bill and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, before moving onto Skins and Waterloo Road. She ...

Celebrating Harlem, NYC

Emily Rae Pellerin

February 2, 2015

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The culture, music, art, people, food, and spirited overall vibe of uptown New York City’s Harlem neighbourhood are beckoning the attentions and affections of not only New Yorkers, but of the rest of the world....

The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican

Lilian Pizzichini

February 2, 2015

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The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican Maybe it is something to do with the lure of television: as 21st-century westerners, we ...

Real fortitude

Becky Zanker

January 29, 2015

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British actor Nicholas Pinnock has an impressively eclectic list of credits to his name. In the 1990s, he appeared in UK TV stalwarts Grange Hill, EastEnders, The Bill and Casualty, but he’s since starred i...

Crime and drama – Glass talks whodunnits with actor Gwilym Lee

Natalie Egling

January 27, 2015

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What makes Britain, Britain? Bacon butties, a cuppa and roast dinners – certainly – but whodunits are my British institution of choice, and none so more than Midsomer Murders and its eerie theremin-based theme ...

Making history

Becky Zanker

January 20, 2015

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She might have been born in 1980s Kent, but Charity Wakefield has lived in numerous time periods. Most recently, she’s appeared as Mary Boleyn in Peter Kosminsky’s highly anticipated Wolf Hall – that’s...

In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican

Lilian Pizzichini

January 14, 2015

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In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican When Schubert first played his new cycle of “spine-chilling” songs to his friends, they hated it. The cycle, Winterreise, shocked the...

Borges and I – Glass reviews theatre company Idle Motion’s latest production

Arjun Sajip

December 13, 2014

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’’Bookworms will not want to miss Paul Slater’ s pensive, highly physical production Few writers’ stories take root in the mind with the tenacity of the work of Jorge Luis Borges. An Argentine recognised in hi...

Great Scotts!

Natalie Egling

December 2, 2014

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There’s a pleasing pattern to Ross Anderson’s character choices: all interesting Scottish men. There’s his big-screen debut as Fionn in The Silent Storm, followed quickly by Blackie in Unbroken and Rosse in 2...