This is an exhibition of work by 24 artist-magicians, who explore the relationship between magic, art, power, trickery and suggestion.
"It’s a bit like buses – you wait for one and three come along." The solution served up by those in power to challenge such mocking of the industry has been to create "the maintenance of headway".
This is a coming-of-age movie with a twist. The story of a young man looking for success and love is set within a real historical context – Orson Welles’s production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in November 1937.
1915 – Born in Wisconsin, USA1936 – Establishes his reputation with production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the Federal Theatre Project (part of New Deal public works, which put unemployed actors to work). Works with all-black cast in Harlem, with play set in Haiti. 1937 – Works on highly political musical The Cradle Will Rock. Premiere at government funded theatre cancelled. Runs into union opposition. Impromptu performance in nearby theatre huge success.
Congratulations to Sylvestre Balazard, Matija Medenica, Wendy McLoughln, Barry Olson and David York.
Bookmarks, the socialist bookshop, has put together a great programme of events for December.
Love Music Hate Racism has organised a superb Christmas fundraising party.
The Socialist Worker Appeal team has put together a great selection of gift ideas for this Christmas, ranging from coffee sets to T-shirts, a Big Red Diary to jewellery, mugs to a Russian Revolution snowstorm.
By choosing Nazi Germany as his setting, Philip Kerr has turned crime thrillers into something far more than pulp fiction.
This year’s Big Red Diary is all about resistance. It’s a practical, A6-size, week-to-view diary.
Ben Elton is a strange figure. He rose to fame with his anti‑Thatcher rants back in the 1980s and earned much-deserved praise for his writing for Blackadder.
The year is 2030. The fascist British National Party (BNP) has been in power for 15 years.
