Ellie Porter
Articles By Ellie Porter
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Spree review - a wild ride through social media madness
Allergic to that word “influencer”? Afraid that social...
Mandy, BBC2 review - Diane Morgan's new creation
Mandy started life in the Comedy Shorts season last year, and has now been given a six-part series. Diane Morgan, who has a...
Theatre Unlocked 4: Shows in concert and a contemporary clas...
After months spent sifting amongst the virtual, I'm pleased to report that live performance looks to be on the (socially distanced) rebound. The...
Pinocchio review - wooden heart
This seems a perfect project for Matteo Garrone, a director who has found new ways to conjure old Italian dreams, and invests even his most grimly...
AIM Awards 2020, SBTV review - a game attempt to rewire awar...
Music awards shows are a strange beast: part window display, part industry conference and part party. Especially if you don’t have Brit Awards or...
Charles Owen, Fidelio Orchestra Café review - high-profile,...
Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti once asked rhetorically what society wanted of performing artists – “the bread of life or the after-dinner mint?”...
Album: Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings
Together for over 20 years and with a string of incredibly successful albums, the...
Fanny and Stella, Garden Theatre review - a saucy slice of q...
In a purgatorial summer, this boisterous, camp and chaotically charming...
Cuba: Castro vs the World, BBC Two - turbulent life and time...
During World War Two, President Franklin D Roosevelt described the USA as “the arsenal of democracy”. Only a couple of decades later, Fidel Castro...
The Telephone, Scottish Opera/Cargill, RSNO, Søndergård, Edi...
Lockdown, perhaps more than any other time, has amplified how ...