In 1649, the ‘Puritan Interregnum’ started in England. As a part of its rejection of lavish Catholicism, theatre performances were banned. The ‘drolls’ were then developed: illegal, secret comic performances that mingled scenes from Shakespeare with other entertainment.
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This exhibition of Bridget Riley’s work is set in ten rooms of the Royal Scottish Academy. It is ordered mostly chronologically. This collection covers 70 years of Riley’s work, which was produced between the late 1940s and 2019.
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‘Ladybones’ was originally explained to me as ‘a show about OCD and archaeology’. Intrigued, I went along, and ran out wanting to grab strangers by the shoulders and tell them about it.
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There is something to be said for representation. The sheer joy gained by hearing a voice that sounds like your own, saying things you have thought (admittedly in this case in a significantly funnier way), is joyously humanising.
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It’s all about coming together and making change, so where else to start but with us?
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Sweet Charity is the story of Charity Hope Valentine, an incurable optimist hoping to escape her life as a taxi dancer in New York.
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