| | | 'I wanted to go darker' – Somewhere Boy, the show about a boy locked up for 18 years | | by Stuart Heritage Sep 30, 2022 | | His father wanted to protect him from the horrors of the world. What happened when he was finally set free? We speak to the star and the writer of an extraordinarily powerful drama Earlier this year, Somewhere Boy won the audience award at the prestigious Series Mania television festival in France, fighting off some of the biggest new shows on Earth. And its creator Pete Jackson only heard about it at the very last moment. “I live in Somerset. I was outside, digging up my garden, and I got a call saying: ‘Get on a train and get to Lille, you’ve won,’” he says. After a breakneck scrabble for London, the festival’s closing ceremony creeping ever closer, he finally found a seat on a Eurostar. “And when I got to Lille, there were police escort motorbikes, the whole shebang, all to race me to the thing. And I missed it by a minute. I got there as they were coming off stage.” Continue reading... | | | | | Matilda the Musical kicks off the London film festival as Netflix banks on Roald Dahl | | by Catherine Shoard Sep 30, 2022 | | The rights to Dahl’s work has been the streaming service’s most expensive content deal to date, so Matthew Warchus’s new film needs to work its magic Nerves are always high on the opening night of the London film festival. But when this year’s edition begins on Wednesday, it won’t just be the cast, crew and British Film Institute bigwigs who anxiously await audience reaction. The world premiere that kicks off proceedings is Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, which marks a first opportunity to see the fruits of Netflix’s most expensive content deal to date: the back catalogue of the children’s author. Continue reading... | | | | | A Billion Times I Love You review – 'The kids get the meat of your kindness and I get the fat' | | by Mark Fisher Sep 30, 2022 | | Everyman theatre, Liverpool
Theatre meets couples counselling as a night of wine, passion and allegations of infidelity leave two women pulling their relationship apart Jesse is on her guard. She wants to know why Taylor is dropping so many “compliment bombs”. Lately, their relationship has not been like that. They have been concentrating on work, being civil, but not really connecting. Taylor can be hot-headed, but she is not big on showing affection. It would be even less like Jesse to accept the love without question. So, in between knocking back a bottle of wine and enjoying a night of passion (not without complications), the two women engage in a skirmish for emotional territory. In this “queer love story” by Patrick Maguire, they must recalibrate. Having put behind them a chaotic past (the playwright spares us the details), they have moved into a new flat so that Taylor can focus on her work with disadvantaged children. Continue reading... | | | | | Clairo review – introspective pandemic-made pop bursts out into the open | | by Huw Baines Sep 30, 2022 | | O2 Academy, Birmingham
Claire Cottrill’s ornate and intricate songs provoke a fan singalong backed by saxophones and clarinets It is thrilling to witness someone making something difficult look easy. When Clairo released her second album Sling in July 2021, the fear was that its hushed, ornate songs, inspired by the Carpenters and Todd Rundgren, might not have been able to exist outside the introspective conditions of the pandemic. Performing live, it takes roughly 30 seconds for Clairo, real name Claire Cottrill, to put these doubts to bed. Sitting at a piano, her face is barely visible from even a few rows back due to a conflagration of phones and outstretched arms. She slides into Sling’s first song, Bambi, lit in soft-focus pinks and blues, and the crowd responds by roaring along to each twist and turn, their boisterousness clearly suggesting the show is something of a release valve. On stage, Cottrill can go where she pleases, because the news from the floor is that they are with her. Clairo is touring the UK until 4 October. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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