Category: Arts & Culture
Scarlett Johansson’s live-action film version of Ghost in the Shell is facing allegations of queer-baiting and straight-washing. When fans first learned that American actress Scarlett Johansson would play the role of Japanese anti-terrorism investigator Major Motoko Kusanagi in the film version, many objected to the white-washing of an Asian story. But now film writer David Opie has pointed […]
express talks to Kyle Jardine, arguably South Africa’s hottest export and cast-member of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. What made you want to get into theatre? I was fortunate enough to be exposed and involved in theatre from a young age, from school productions, to watching shows and musicals on our local stages and, […]
express interviewed Alex Taylor, a leading young composer who’s championing anarchic and vibrant opera for a younger generation. Performing in the upcoming show of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, we found out everything from what it has been like re-working the music, how the audience will react to the performance, and who came up with the costumes! What has […]
She’s one of the best ballet dancers in the world. So is he. Together, they are a Russian power couple – both having met while dancing Giselle and her probably being the one to have been able to bring him back into the folds of the Royal Ballet. He’s the bad boy, she’s the poster […]
Rice is all about the struggle. Heavy, belaboured movements that are punctuated with audible breaths and stomps play a large role in the 70-minute dance about the life cycle of rice. In a sense, the dance is a tribute to the farmers who do the backbreaking work to produce the staple of a Chinese diet, […]
The Wellington Pride Festival is the capital’s annual celebration of LGBT+ (queer and transgender) identities, and the 2017 festival is going to be the biggest in 25 years! It is a key time of celebration for this diverse community – but some stories are still not being told. Takatāpui – LGBT+ Māori identity – is […]
In Nina George’s Little Paris Bookshop, a French bookseller believes “ a book is both medic and medicine at once, diagnosing as well as offering therapy.” On that metaphor, listening to the 20+ writers featured in the 2017 samesame but different queer writing festival was definitely a diagnosing – and therapeutic—experience. In his welcome to […]
Prudes and people with weak constitutions should not come to this. Though, let’s be honest, the fact that all the publicity material comments on how it’s “delicious, deviant and delirious” should be enough to deter those who prefer their acts tame and fully-clothed. La Soirée is a variety circus-burlesque-cabaret show, which basically means you take […]