TheatreReviewShoreditch Town Hall, London
Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Philip Ridley’s 1991 dark fable, starring George Blagden and Bafta-nominated Hayley Squires, is vivid and monstrous
The gaudy excesses of Jamie Lloyd’s recent West End revivals of The Maids and Dr Faustus give way to something less flamboyant and more insidious in his staging of Philip Ridley’s influential 1991 play. It’s a nightmarish fairytale about abandoned children, starring Bafta-nominated Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) and George Blagden as the 28-year-old chocoholic Stray twins, Haley and Presley, whose parents disappeared a decade earlier.
Paris city guideParis holidays10 of the best Paris B&BsJoanna Walsh, aka blogger Badaude, picks the best B&Bs in Paris, from a swish townhouse in Montmartre to a free guesthouse on the Left Bank
As featured in our Paris city guideHotel Particulier MontmartreThe most deluxe B&B in Paris (and possibly the world), this Montmartre townhouse is set back from the main tourist drag just behind the leafy mansions of Avenue Junot.
Rose Lu at her home in Wellington. In the New Zealand capital, personal cable cars aren’t just reserved for the wealthy. Photograph: Eva Corlett/The GuardianThe hilly capital has an inordinately high number of incline lifts and more are being built as easily accessible sites become harder to find
by Eva Corlett in WellingtonSome look like glass elevators plucked from a science-fiction film, others a giant fibreglass bucket, but however they come, Wellington’s personal cable cars are more than just an alternative to scaling the hilly capital’s interminable steps; they are a small slice of daily magic for the hundreds of people who use them.
Global developmentA dossier of bank slips detailing suspect payments of millions of dollars handed to the journalist brought the downfall of a political upstart in Cameroon. But it also led to Zogo’s murder. His colleagues went to investigate why
Martinez Zogo was 50 when his body was found on an empty plot of land in Ebogo, Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 22 January 2023. He had left his radio station, Amplitude FM, at about 8pm on 17 January.
Horror and hope: paintings from the Zaïre popular school – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A new exhibition gathers rarely seen works by leading Congolese artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, who depicted the country’s brutal colonial past, the fight for independence and later struggles for power
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The outspokenUK criminal justiceInterviewJon Needham: the man who went to hell and back as a child – and now fights for all rape victimsAlexandra ToppingHe experienced horrendous abuse in foster care, then suffered terribly years later when the case came to court. Now a police officer, he is determined to change how the system treats survivors
Jon Needham looks like a copper. Tall, broad and imposing, he works in a lifetime offender management unit, where he deals with serious and organised criminals.
No man is an island: life on the Faroes – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Andrea Gjestvang spent six years depicting the traditional males who roam these remote volcanic isles – while the female population declines
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@mlestone Main image: ‘The vastness of land, sky and sea’ … young men take an evening swim in the cold waters in Sydrugota.
Film blogThe Imitation GameThe Imitation Game: the queerest thing to hit multiplexes for years?By focusing on Alan Turing’s outsider nature as a facet of his sexuality, The Imitation Game successfully brings gay culture into the mainstream The red carpet premiere of The Imitation Game
Codebreaker Turing takes centre stage
“Mother says I’m just an odd fish,” an adolescent Alan Turing tells a schoolmate in The Imitation Game, the film that opened the 2014 London film festival last night, 8 October.
US news This article is more than 14 years oldThe real Rain Man dies of heart attack in home town of Salt Lake City, aged 58This article is more than 14 years oldKim Peek, the real Rain Man whose almost unimaginable powers of memory were coupled with severe disabilities and who inspired the Oscar-winning film role played by Dustin Hoffman, has died of a heart attack in his home town of Salt Lake City, aged 58.
Music This article is more than 8 years oldTravis Scott issues apology for homophobic onstage slurThis article is more than 8 years old‘Never will I ever disrespect that community,’ says Texan rapper after footage from a show back in March emerges Rapper Travis Scott has apologised for the offensive remarks he made during a show in Houston, Texas, at the start of the year.
The rapper faced a backlash from social media users after footage emerged of the Texan artist calling a group of people at his gig in March “a bunch of queers” and “faggots” at Houston’s House of Blues.