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An Arts and Culture Blog...
Welcome to Cultural Capital - an arts and culture blog for the naturally curious. All my own opinions #IMHO! I love arts and culture in many forms from dance and music to theatre and art galleries. Sharing what I've experienced and appreciated - hope you enjoy =)
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A Happy Clappy Goes to Anglican Central
@Photograph - Author's own 12th September 2021 I'm fundamental (in a good, not cornbelt crazy) kind of a way, conservative (small c not...

Minari
This is such an amazing film. Stunning cinematography, which tells the story in itself, and the director really allows the characters,...

The Courier
https://youtu.be/Qeo8qs9xohM Moustache-chewing tour-de-force of a Cold War spy move by Benedict Cumberbatch. In the style of John Le...

Hamlet or the Aged Dane or the Great Dane!
https://youtu.be/4Qa2gZn-Uzo This production has received a lot of criticism - we were watching different plays! My first theatre visit...

F9: Fast, Furious and Funny
Watch the trailer here! https://youtu.be/fEE4RO-_jug Epic, fantastical and full on stunts and audacious set pieces; cars, cars and even...

The Comeback
Another actual play...and this time a comedy! Not as slick or as funny as the 'goes wrong' series, a strange mixture of really full on...

What To Watch When Movies Feel Like the News
I love a good thriller; however I'm struggling to watch them now because they just feel too much like real life. Also waiting for new...

Constellations: Where is Peter Capaldi?
My first live live theatre post-Lockdown 3.0 in the UK. Though socially distanced theatre is weird - arrive half an hour early,...

Dumb Waiter: Old Vic In Camera
I've never seen a Harold Pinter before. Here I experienced five minutes of the famous Pinter pause - no-one said anything for a whole...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkyZAHAzkI Blue Devil's production of Dorian Gray is reconstructed in the '60's. Dorian is a wannabe pop...

Old Spies: A Cold Supper Behind Harrods
Felt a little cheated because it was a livesteamed read through so you get stumbles, forgetting places, flaws and all. However, when is a...

Once More Unto The Zoom, Dear Friends. No You're On Mute! Guildford Shakespeare Company's Henry V
Not sure how they got the props, but with the aid of some green screen, some props and Zoom boxes we are in the play of Hervy V; Zoomin'...

If A Zoom Can Sing a Thousand Words - Nitin Sawnhey From The Globe Theatre
Until Paul Weller and Jules Buckley at the Barbican, my favourite gig of the year. Live! Beautiful surroundings of the indoor Globe...

A Midsummer Night's Dream Zoom!
Whole actual Shakespeare play on a Zoom, even incorporating actor's kids I think! Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall as part of the Shake...

Reasons To Be Cheerful During Lockdown/Global Pandemic
Things That Have Been Keeping Me Cheerful During Lockdown 3.0 in England Lockdown Lectures With James Wright, Triskele Heritage What a...

Dream: Promising More Than It Delivered
RSC's Immersive Dream experience I really wanted to like this production. The cast tried so hard, were so enthusiastic and all body...

Romeo and Juliet: A Zoom
RomeoandJuliet2021- I love how they worked the empty theatre - Derek Jacobi giving the Prologue and initial conversations taking place in...

Zoomin' With Wicked Mr Wickham
Being Mr Wickham is a livestream monologue of Mr Wickham's side of things. And not just my life of hell with Mr Darcy expose style. His...

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Every Picture Tells A Story
https://www.pictureofdoriangray.com/ *Some spoilers*.... An online version of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray with Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley,...




















