Tom Baily
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Mogul Mowgli review - displacement and generational trauma
When Mogul Mowgli was first announced, it was fair to expect something of a realist biopic. After all, you had documentary director...
Meet the Young Artists Week recital, Linbury Theatre – four...
Throughout this most difficult of years, the Royal Opera...
The Sister, ITV review - half-baked dramatisation of esteeme...
Neil Cross’s novel Burial was hailed for its skilful plotting and insightful characterisations, as well as its macabre atmosphere....
Shirley review - hothouse art film about American horror wri...
Shirley is one of those films that the mood you’re in when you watch it will dictate whether you think it’s a great...
Album: Dizzee Rascal - E3 AF
You can’t ever go all the way home again, and for years Dizzee Rascal didn’t want to. His...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 60: Acid Pauli, Mercury Rev, Cabbage, K...
Due to COVID-related nonsense too tedious to relate, this month’s theartsdesk on...
Pavel Kolesnikov, Wigmore Hall review - the stuff of dreams
To plan a programme around The Tempest, its symbolism and the idea of evanescence, the fragility of the human condition, is one...
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology review - wild writing t...
Among the French composer Claude Debussy’s greatest and characteristically subtle innovations was to put the titles at the end of his pieces. He...
Album: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Ful...
Post-rock singer-songwriter Emma Ruth...
Philharmonia, Rouvali, RFH review – wide range of American v...
There’s an old rule in the theatre that you don’t have to go on if there are more people on stage than in the audience. Last night I counted less...