Peter
Peter, by George Hull could be seen as a coming-of-age piece with the questioning of faith, exploration of sexuality and grieving over a mother’s death.14 Aug 2011
Killing Swine
A boy and a girl from different sides of the track fall in love and have a baby. A class of young drama students prepare a production of Macbeth. It’s 90210 with a conch shell meets Romeo and Juliet and The Grudge.
14 Aug 2011
The Year of Being a Squirrel
Baba Yaga, a monstrous hag made of snot and iron teeth commands a young girl to perform the impossible task of sifting a mountain of wheat a grain at a time or be eaten. What the old witch doesn’t know is that the girl has her dead mother’s clothes pin doll in her pocket.
14 Aug 2011
Lies My Garden Told Me
Lies My Garden Told Me is a wonderfully sweet clown show in 5D (See! Hear! Sniff! Poke! Taste! But you probably shouldn’t! You weren’t meant to eat that!) about a little girl scrabbling around her back garden and learning beautiful, terrible truths about life.
13 Aug 2011
Life—A One Woman Show
Dressed as though she has just escaped from an 80s music video, with a galaxy painted on her face, and moving like a marionette with her strings tied to the capricious fingers of the universe, Amy De Bhrun tells half her story in simple prose and the other half in rhyming couplets.
13 Aug 2011
Craig Murray's Really Honest Travel Show
Via Romania, Hungary, and Florida’s Disneyworld, Craig Murray takes us on a tour of Yorkshire Sculpture Park near West Bretton along the A637.
13 Aug 2011
Kent Valentine—Sex, Maths and Eric Clapton
Outside, London was burning. Inside, Kent Valentine was teaching us how to make napalm. It seemed sensible to know what we were potentially facing out there, as masked nine-year-olds ransacked the city for flatscreens while documenting their crimes on Twitter.
13 Aug 2011
A Middle-Aged Man's Uncertainty Theory
A floppy haired fifty-something cabbie adapts to the lifestyle of his every fare. For the posh he turns toff, for the common he becomes clay. A sort of Zelig on a meter.
13 Aug 2011
Pandora's Boxes
Pandora, Husband and Baby Son live somewhere in a rural, folkloresque Russia, possibly existing in the split second the Wall came down and the west poured into the Motherland.
13 Aug 2011
Proof, schmoof. Wandsworth starts evicting people accused of being rioters
This afternoon Wandsworth became the first Council to serve a post-riot eviction notice. The south-west London Council grabbed this dubious accolade after beginning an eviction process against a tenant whose son was involved in Monday night’s events.
12 Aug 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Diary of the shy Londoner
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