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The Spectator

27 April 2024 Aus

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Arts

Australian Arts

The barbarity of this man

It’s a spectacle a lot of people would kill to see: Hugo Weaving in a Sydney Theatre Company co-production of…

Television

Sordid, ugly and threadbare: Jimmy Carr – Natural Born Killer reviewed

Here’s an offensive joke: ‘Jimmy Carr gets paid to do a Netflix special.’ All right, it’s not original – I…

Cinema

Tennis romance that doesn’t contain much tennis: Challengers reviewed

It sounds straightforward enough: a tennis romance starring Zendaya, idol of the mid-teen demographic and last seen riding a sandworm…

Theatre

Cheesy remake of Our Mutual Friend: London Tide, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

Our Mutual Friend has been turned into a musical with a new title, London Tide, which sounds duller and more…

Pop

Taylor Swift’s new album is exhausting

How to explain the supercharged star power of Taylor Swift? An undeniably gifted artist, Swift’s albums 1989, Folklore and Evermore,…

Radio

How to live off the land for a year

Could you live off the land for a year without buying a single thing to eat? This was the challenge…

Opera

You could have built a tent city from all the red chinos: Aci by the River reviewed

The Thames cruise for which Handel composed his Water Music in 1717 famously went on until around 4 a.m. The…

Exhibitions

The latest Venice Biennale is ideologically and aesthetically bankrupt

Last week’s opening of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for the art world. In much…

Arts feature

‘I couldn’t afford loo roll’: Bruce Robinson on being skint, Zeffirelli’s advances and Withnail’s return

Bruce Robinson is ramming a huge log into the grate of his ancient fireplace in mud-clogged Herefordshire. He’s 77 and…