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Immigration – a funny old business! Review by Sala Choudhury
Refusal Shoes by Tony Saint
Have you ever thought about the miserable looking officials who sit at desks in the airport on your way back from holiday? Tony Saint’s debut novel delves into their world, one full of crooks and villains - and that’s just the...
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Each tells a tale through their use of decorative devices, historical allusions or choice of materials, sharing common themes such as fantasy, parody and a concern with mortality. The exhibition runs till October 2009 and admission is free .
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Who wants to live on Avenue q?: By Salma Hossain
“Avenue Q? Isn’t that the one with the puppets?!”
Naturally, I didn’t have high expectations of going to see what I thought would be the Muppet Show on a Friday evening. Then again, I wasn’t quite so prepared to enjoy myself as much as I did!
Find out moreYes a puppet show it certainly was but I don’t know any puppets that cover issues such as racism, homosexuality, self-discovery, pornography (yes you read pornography) and one-night stands!
The Muppet Show this certainly isn’t!
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News flash its Newswipe
Charlie Brooker's new TV show takes an effortless swipe at the bottomless chasm of 24-hour news. Brooker files from the abyss of 'Current Affairs Land' to expose the inner workings of news media. The series is a comic, thoughtful and acerbic analysis of recent news coverage.
Find out moreNewswipe also looks at the way the news is presented to the public. Brooker is on hand to pick apart recent stories, analyse the news media's obsessions, and just generally take the piss out of our sensationalist and formulaic media
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Big Night Out: Review by Kamal Hussain
Its a Saturday night and it’s the Big Night Out in Covent Garden, where about 100 people are sitting in a darkened Sway Bar in Great Queen Street. A hefty middle-aged man, with very long, messy and spiky hair (like a walking ad for Wella Shock Waves), walks on to a small...
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“Yesterday,” he says, pausing deliberately. “I saw… a small… dead… white ghost.” He pauses as if confused at the mixture of sympathy and derisive amusement. “Might have been a handkerchief.” He looks even more confused as the room explodes in genuine laughter.
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Speak of the devil: Devil on the Cross (Author Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’O)
Words by Kamal Hussain
Written on toilet paper whilst in prison Devil on the Cross is far from crap literature. In fact it has been hailed by Tribune as one of the great novels of the century. Originally written in Gĩkũyũ and then translated into English, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’O’s allegorical critique of modern...
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then their replacement indigenous puppets.
Using the oral storytelling traditions of the Gĩkũyũ, Devil on the Cross resists the traditional European novel form, which Ngũgĩ deems as a European bourgeois, colonialist and capitalist medium. It follows the journey of Jacinta Warĩĩnga (read as a metaphor for Kenya) who is invited to a devil’s feast to honour and crown Ilmorog’s seven cleverest thieves and robbers. No jokes about the British penal system, please: it sounds more like my bank’s AGM…
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