Jangled & Tetchy : Arts reviews with a bite

Film

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Mohammad Rasoulof

The naked truth of extreme Islamic ideology

8 February 2025
Music

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra

Barbican, London

Excellence and vigour

19 January 2025
Music

Leif Ove Andsnes

Wigmore Hall, London

Northern grace

16 January 2025
Art

Vanessa Bell

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Playful versatility

30 December 2024
Theatre

The invention of love

Hampstead Theatre, London

Distant Oxford passions

15 December 2024
Theatre

Stranger than the moon

The Coronet Theatre, London

Pure. Objective. Evil.

8 December 2024
Film

Shepherds (2024)

Sophie Deraspe

Ode to a way of life

5 December 2024
Art

Monet and London

The Courtauld Gallery, London

Views of the Thames reunited

30 November 2024
Book

Patriot

Alexei Navalny

Russia will be happy!

23 November 2024
Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

Timeless play as a vision of contemporary Britain

3 November 2024