The latest Indian blockbuster featuring an International cast and aimed at a crossover audience released recently in the UK. Sangeeta Datta talks to Aamir Khan about his influences and politics. Bollywood is now India’s biggest calling card in the ever growing business of entertainment. It is the new buzzword and mantra in Diasporic cross cultural [...]
Actor | Artist | Awareness | Bollywood | Cinema | Communities | Director | Film | Filmmaker | History | Hollywood | Iconic | Movie | Music | Performance | Political | Theatre | WarThe 7th black film magazine International Film Festival [bfm IFF] hosts an amazing line up of films from the finest the African Diaspora has to offer: films made in Hollywood, the Caribbean, Africa, Canada, Europe and our own UK talent will compete for prizes and awards. The bfm IFF is a six day event – [...]
Actor | Art | Events | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | HollywoodRotozaza’s physical theatre Life Affirming Joyride plays at the Bullion Room. Maureen McManus speaks to Ant Hampton about spontaneous theatre, barriers and power. Life affirming joyride anyone? Yeah, right, like that’s going to happen in a run-down theatre space at the back of the Hackney Empire. Sure, all these bohemian types with their winter underwear [...]
Actor | East London | Festival | International | Music | Performance | Performer | TheatreIt’s upon us again, time for the models to be on their best behaviour, for the kings and queens of style to get in gear and for everyone else to pay attention. London Fashion Week 2005, awaits. In the hubbub of Fashion Week’s trendy events, East London’s mirrorstudios presents the London Fashion Week 2005 off-schedule [...]
Actor | Celebrity | Clothes | Contemporary | Design | Designer | East London | Events | Fashion | Show | TraditionalIf you are looking for the hottest ticket in town, the sold-out play of the year, albeit in a very small theatre (the King’s Head in Islington), or a vicious, no-nonsense send-up of Britain’s modern-day ruling class, Who’s The Daddy? is on its way to be proclaimed as the most controversial new play of the [...]
Actor | Designer | Director | Editor | Events | Modern | Political | Theatre | War | WriterWilliam Shakespeare’s short, savage tragedy about a military hero who is spurred on by his ambitious wife and dangerously fascinated with witchcraft is staged at the Arcola Theatre this September by Out of Joint Productions. The action unfolds in an African state torn apart by war, and includes promenade elements. Director, Max Stafford-Clark says of [...]
Actor | Director | Magic | Modern | Music | Theatre | WarThe Royal National Theatre eagerly and protectively awaits the title and production of Mike Leigh’s new play, as do we, excited by the mystery and fascination of it all. Will it cause a tempest, flooding the South Bank venue with honour or derision? “I want you to get an interview with Mike Leigh!” The assertion [...]
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