Jelena Sofronijevic

'Word-Play' Review: Are Some Things Better Left Unsaid? ★★★✰✰ It begins with an all-too familiar scene. The Prime Minister has said something racist—or “offensive” […]

'School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play': Review ★★★★✰ Sit up; Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play might be the best play you’ll […]

‘Wodzirej’ Review: A Glance Into Communist Poland In a village hall near Warsaw, Danielak Lutek conducts his audience in a rousing performance of Ritmo […]

‘Bad Women of China’ Review: Can Acupuncture Cure A Rightist? Bad Women of China follows three generations of Chinese women from the 1920s to the present day. All are posed […]

A Bruising Insight into Alcoholism: 'The Dry House' Review ★★★★✰ Grieving the death of her teenage daughter, Chrissy sinks into the floorboards, and an ever-wors […]

Gulags, Safe Spaces and Spycams: VAULT Festival Roundup – Review ★★★✰✰ In spring, the warren beneath Waterloo Station starts teeming with life; a network of undergrou […]

'Film for Freedom' Review: Refugee Women Take Control of their Narratives Above its own Arab Hall, Leighton House screened four short films by Syrian refugee women living in Lebanon. […]

A Fascinating Production About Hiroshima: The Mistake Review ★★★✰✰ The Mistake is a play about simultaneity. It’s morning, and Nomura Shigeko (Emiko Ishii) wills away […]

Bare And Intimate: 'New Plays: Japan' Review ★★★★✰ Bare and intimate, the Royal Court’s attic is a playground for works in progress. New Plays: Japa […]

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at The Serpentine: Exhibition Review The Serpentine’s small size betrays the depth of its curation. Its two current exhibitions are no exception, t […]

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‘The history of The Nights in English is largely one of misrepresentation…translators have truncated or embroidered the text to suit their own concerns. Visual language allows me to confront these issue […]

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It begins and ends with a McDonald’s birthday party. The Golden Arches mirror the modern Moorish architecture behind. A father (Philip Arditti) recalls his own childhood in Iraq. Where the abundant da […]

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To Google was already a verb by the time I was born. Data, and its opposite, noise, were well established in daily life. And the philosophical question, as to whether information amounted to knowledge […]

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At 12:37pm on 22 July 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. Ninety-one were killed and forty-six wounded, in the attack by right-wing Zionists on Britain’s headquarters in Palestine. […]