Harriet Mercer

Articles By Harriet Mercer

Derek Owusu: Losing the Plot review - the finest perfume Thursday, 10 November 2022 Read more...	Bronwyn Adcock: Currowan review - a fire foretold, a warning delivered Tuesday, 27 September 2022 Read more...
Phoebe Power: Book of Days review - the clack of walking poles, the clink of scallop shell Tuesday, 26 July 2022 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Let’s call it Jane Austen fit for the West End, but with opera singers. The fact that it also serves as a fun ensemble piece for students is also...

Forty years ago, Chuck Prophet was the Keith Richards-like guitar hotshot in Green On Red, peers of R.E.M. and among the raw country-punk...

Stonehenge is about 5,000 years old; three photographic artists currently exhibiting in the visitor centre are all under the age of...

Chapter III: We Return to Light is an unashamedly gentle and soothing escape from a hectic world. The last in a travelogue ...

Amid these troubling times, can we not all live in the world of the 2025 Oscars' runaway success story, an ever-smiling Sean Baker? That thought...

The railways that we built in India may be well known, but I bet...

Folk rock has long been one of Jethro Tull’s strongest suits. Ian Anderson’s integration of...

Plays about the Windrush Generation are no longer a rarity, but it’s still unusual for revivals of black British classics to get the full...

The score is effective, and rewarding to perform, but derivative. The libretto uses every cliché, or truism, about save-the-planet youth activism...