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Feature Film: Trance

The opening sequence of Danny Boyle’s Trance is by far the most entertaining in the film. Here we are introduced to Simon (James McAvoy), ...

by Becky Ayre | April 4, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, podcast

An abandoned amusement park in Berlin

This week, as part of our Mystery issue, guest podcasters Mädels with a Microphone explore the curious world of Spreepark, an abandoned amusement park in Berlin. They uncover the ...

by Litro | March 29, 2013January 2, 2019
Arts & Culture

Exhibiton: From Death to Death and Other Small Tales

The body is an enduring theme in art, from Egon Schiele’s exquisite but confrontational masturbation works, to Mark Quinn’s queasy frozen-fluid casts. The current show ...

by Laura Gavin | March 28, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Cloud Atlas

It was never going to be easy. A critically acclaimed novel with a complex Russian doll structure that links characters as far ranging as a ...

by Bella Whittington | March 26, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Come into my world: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time hurtles towards you at a rate of knots, rather like the tube train that marks protagonist ...

by Michael Reffold | March 21, 2013November 18, 2013
Arts & Culture

The Art of the Double Bill

“The art of the perfect double bill has always been about finding two films that bring out something in the other that might not be ...

by Ian Shine | March 19, 2013May 30, 2013
Arts & Culture, Litro TV

Performance Poetry: Jodi Ann Bickley

Watch performance poet Jodi Ann Bickley on stage with her poems about the mystery of love, “Drive Home” and “I’m a dickhead but I love ...

by Emma Cooper | March 18, 2013June 7, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: For Ellen

Although Paul Dano delivers a committed performance in For Ellen, his character is not quite believable. The rock-and-roller image – with chipped black nail polish, ...

by Joanna Pocock | March 12, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Searching for Watt: Barry McGovern in Watt at the Barbican

You’d be forgiven for thinking we’ve perhaps seen all there is to see of the acclaimed Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. After all, there have been ...

by Michael Reffold | March 11, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

The Mystery of the Missing Scots

Samuel Dodson argues that real Scottish characters are mysteriously missing from English literature. Continue Reading The Mystery of the Missing Scots

by Samuel Dodson | March 9, 2013May 11, 2013
Arts & Culture, Litro TV

Performance Poetry:A Footballer’s Life For Me by Rob Auton

Performance poet Rob Auton opens our new Litro TV slot with his short film “A Footballer’s Life For Me”, about his own personal crowd of ...

by Emma Cooper | March 8, 2013June 7, 2013
Arts & Culture

All That Glitters: The Great Gatsby at Wilton’s Music Hall

If there’s one thing that the creative team at Wilton’s Music Hall get right with their adaptation of this most slippery of novels, it’s in ...

by Michael Reffold | March 6, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Chantal Akerman’s Films: Love & Relationships in a Modern World

Our environment has more of an impact upon our decisions and daily lives than we may at first realise. Our regular interactions, chance meetings and ...

by Eleanor Pender | March 1, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

“Thou comest in such questionable shape”: Hamlet at The Rose Theatre

One of the unique and perhaps fundamental elements to the drama in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a clear sense of the passage of time. The impact ...

by Ana Malinovic | February 23, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Madame de…

A much-underrated director and supreme stylist, Max Ophuls is having a renaissance with a series at the British Film Institute this February that should not ...

by Bea Moyes | February 17, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show at the Tricycle Theatre: “We have a position in society, mister … an’ I don’t mean just black society.”

Written in 1982 by African American playwright Don Evans, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show is a light-hearted exploration of the tensions between race, roots ...

by Charlotte Seymour | February 14, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken”: The Judas Kiss at The Duke of York’s Theatre

Sometimes an actor inhabits a role so completely, so convincingly, that for the duration of a performance you really do believe you’re watching a different ...

by Michael Reffold | February 9, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

The Screen on the Green

The Everyman Cinemas are a chain of boutique independent theatres owned by the Everyman Media Group. They are based in the most exclusive suburbs of ...

by Philip Maughan | February 8, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Sacred Cows

In this, the first of her columns for Litro challenging Indian attitudes to the sacred cow, Supriya Ambwani questions the Hindu ban on eating beef, ...

by Supriya Ambwani | February 5, 2013May 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Pinter’s Pest Control: Old Times at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Old Times, first performed in 1971, is a prime example of Pinter’s ability to create characters who are riveting, engaging an audience’s full attention despite ...

by Michael Reffold | February 2, 2013June 4, 2013

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Feature Film: Trance

An abandoned amusement park in Berlin

Exhibiton: From Death to Death and Other Small Tales

Feature Film: Cloud Atlas

Come into my world: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre

The Art of the Double Bill

Performance Poetry: Jodi Ann Bickley

Feature Film: For Ellen

Searching for Watt: Barry McGovern in Watt at the Barbican

The Mystery of the Missing Scots

Performance Poetry:A Footballer’s Life For Me by Rob Auton

All That Glitters: The Great Gatsby at Wilton’s Music Hall

Chantal Akerman’s Films: Love & Relationships in a Modern World

“Thou comest in such questionable shape”: Hamlet at The Rose Theatre

Feature Film: Madame de…

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show at the Tricycle Theatre: “We have a position in society, mister … an’ I don’t mean just black society.”

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken”: The Judas Kiss at The Duke of York’s Theatre

The Screen on the Green

Sacred Cows

Pinter’s Pest Control: Old Times at the Harold Pinter Theatre

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