Barney McAll doesn’t set out to surprise the socks off people, it’s just the way the music comes out. His new album, Precious Energy, is a bigger surprise than most, partly because the world in which he made it was turned upside down, partly because the pianist/composer has added lyric-writing…
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Musicals used to about as violent as grazing cows. West Side Story changed that, before first Sweeney Todd and then American Psycho really opened the blood-gates. Now Lizzie comes to town. Where Todd neatly slit his victims’ throats with a razor, the real Lizzie Borden used an axe to polish…
FILM VENUS & ADONIS 8/10 Awaiting classification, 144 minutes In cinemas January 20 Damien Ryan’s commanding film-directing debut opens with a quote from writer Peter Handke: “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” We now know what that’s like, at least in relation to our on-stage storytellers.…