V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia
Tom Sutcliffe reviews Weston Cast Court at the V&A Museum, City of Angels at the Donmar, Tim Burton's Big Eyes, Small Books: extremely short fiction, and Mapp and Lucia on ±«Óãtv TV.
London's V+A Museum has just reopened the Weston Cast Court, which houses life-size plaster casts of statuary and artefacts from around Europe. It includes the museum's largest items, can it draw their largest crowds?
Larry Gelbart's City of Angels is revived at London's Donmar Warehouse. A musical about the golden age of Hollywood, it garnered awards galore 25 years ago in its original run, will this production be a winner?
Tim Burton's new film Big Eyes is about 1960s housewife Margaret Keane whose paintings of waifs with enormous dark eyes were wildly commercially successful, but her husband claimed all the glory until she decided to make a break for fame in her own right.
Small Books: We look at 3 works of extremely short fiction. Hanif Kureishi, Haruki Murakami and AN Wilson all have stories to tell, that they feel are best-suited to new diminutive formats.
The ±«Óãtv has remade EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia in sumptuous style; is it a new classic?
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BOOKS
Hanif Kureishi - A Theft: My Con Man (faber and faber)
Haruki Murakami – The Strange Library (Harvill)
AN Wilson – The Man Behind Narnia by AN Wilson (kindle single)
EXHIBITION
Weston Cast Court at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London - a permanent exhibition
FILM
THEATRE
Donmar Warehouse, London
TELEVISION
29 December at 2105
30 December at 2100
31 December at 2030
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Tom Sutcliffe |
Broadcast
- Sat 20 Dec 2014 19:15±«Óãtv Radio 4
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