The Rose of Nevada doesn’t open simply; it instead offers glimpses at decay: rotting timber, lichen and images of a Cornish fishing town well past its prime. The opening scenes of the film offer a glimpse of the plot to come: a movie about time and what we owe to our community. 

Photo by John Cobb When London-based intercultural theatre company, Border Crossings, invited me to the opening night of their latest production about Syrian refugee women, I was immediately invested. I found myself at Hoxton Hall last week eagerly looking forward to a night that would transport me to a sensorily and culturally rich experience of the Levant. ‘Suppliants of Syria’ is a modern retelling of Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy, ‘Suppliants', one of the earliest classics to

Photo by Bence Szemerey via Pexels (licensed under the Pexels Licence ) A century after the genre first haunted the silver screen, Gothic sensibilities and traditions have crept back into cinema, uncannily suited to express the anxieties of the 2020s. While some Gothic monsters remain the most recognisable figures in literature and film, these stories have always been less about the monsters themselves than about the systems and histories that give rise to them. From the ec

Harrowing to watch and impossible to ignore, Guy Trevellyan’s Plastic Surgery is an unflinching look at the pollutive waste within us all.

The music swells and I am elated that such raw sincerity has slipped into my life, leaving me blinded by the humanity we all share. I am feeling capable of being open and raw to the world around me. Then the video restarts.