Hanya Yanagihara, No Escape, Site-specific theatre, Boy Meets Girl
Arts news, including Hanya Yanagihara discussing her novel A Little Life and Mark Eccleston reviewing the film No Escape. Plus Samira Ahmed takes a tour of site-specific theatre.
Hanya Yanagihara discusses her new novel A Little Life, which is on the Man-Booker Prize longlist. An exploration of friendship, the lifelong effects of abuse and the limits of human endurance.
Mark Eccleston reviews the American action film No Escape staring Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan.
The challenges of putting on site-specific theatre, featuring new play Absent at Shoreditch Town Hall, which has been transformed into a hotel, and the creators of cult hit You Me Bum Bum train.
Boy Meets Girl is the UK's first transgender sitcom set to air on ±«Óãtv2 next week. Writer and comedian Natalie Haynes reviews.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Anna Bailey.
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Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life
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Site-specific theatre
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Hanya Yanagihara
Duration: 10:05
No Escape
Duration: 04:31
Site-specific theatre
Duration: 08:52
Boy Meets Girl
Duration: 04:17
Yanagihara Hanya
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by Yanagihara Hanya is available in hardback and ebook now.
Main image: © Jenny Westerhoff.
Left: © Sam Levy.
No Escape
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No Escape is in cinemas from Friday 4 September, certificate 15.
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is at the Sanofi Factory in Dagenham until Sunday 6 September.
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
Absent
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is at Shoreditch Town Hall, in London until the 25 October 2015.
Photo: Jim Stephenson
You Me Bum Bum Train
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is at a secret location in London from September to October, 2015. Â
Boy Meets Girl
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begins on ±«Óãtv 2 on Thursday 3September at 9pm.
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