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• Newry playwright Abbie Spallen awarded $150,000 literary prize
  on Mar 2, 2016 in audio culture theatre
  “Lifechanging” is how Abbie Spallen describes her unexpected win. “It comes completely out of the blue.”The Windham-Campbell Prize eschews application and open submission processes and does not tease with public shortlisting. Instead, a set o...
• Going to the theatre … at a cinema: National Theatre’s "As You Like It" at Odyssey Cinemas
  on Feb 27, 2016 in Belfast culture film theatre
  Multiplex cinemas are branching out beyond films. Their large screens and comfy chairs allow new audiences to experience vast theatrical and operatic productions that would never be able to travel outside capital city venues.Last week I watched the N...
• Love or Money - forging a new relationship while fighting to save a business & a career (C21 Theatre)
  on Feb 25, 2016 in Belfast review theatre
  Waiting for last night’s performance to begin, musak wafted over the heads of the audience in the Lyric’s Naughton Studio. A soulful version of “Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?” set an appropriate mood for Ro...
• Ada.Ada.Ada - an illuminating history of the complex woman behind the first complex computer programme
  on Feb 20, 2016 in Belfast science theatre weekend
  Domineered by her mother, and inheriting her father’s capacity to take reckless risks, Ada Lovelace pioneered what would become known as computer programming a hundred years before Alan Turing and Bletchley Park found an urgent reason to exploit th...
• Bone Tomahawk (18) - a funny, intelligent but brutal twist on the traditional Western (QFT until 25 Feb)
  on Feb 18, 2016 in film filmreview review
  First sound: a stereoscopic buzzing fly.First sight: a throat being cut.To borrow from the dialogue between two characters a few minutes into the film: “It’s ominous.”In some ways Bone Tomahawk’s plot could have been that of a typical Western...
• Preview: Love or Money (C21 Theatre) with playwright Rosemary Jenkinson
  on Feb 16, 2016 in Belfast theatre
  C21 Theatre Company is back on stage in ten days time with Rosemary Jenkinson’s new satirical play Love or Money. It promises to be “a comedy about banks, bras and going bust”. The Belfast playwright told me about the plot:“The new play is ab...
• Start Making Sense … of elections, politics, budgets, photos & change #ImagineBelfast
  on Feb 11, 2016 in Belfast festival film politics
  Imagine! Belfast’s Festival of Ideas and Politics is back. Running throughout the week of St Patrick’s Day in March, the theme is “Start Making Sense” and the programme is double the size of last year’s inaugural festival.Over 80 (mostly fr...
• Rams - frosty Icelandic farmland folly breeds sheepish black comedy (QFT 12-18 Feb)
  on Feb 11, 2016 in Belfast film filmreview review
  Two bachelor brothers, estranged for forty years, live on adjacent sheep farms in the north of Iceland. Gummi and Kiddi’s frosty relationship is echoed by the harsh winter and the bitter wind that blows across the landscape.While their love for eac...
• Review - The Truth Commissioner - can he deliver truth, healing and closure?
  on Feb 9, 2016 in Belfast film filmreview review
  The Truth Commissioner had its world première screening in front of a paying audience in the Queen’s Film Theatre on Monday 1 February as part of their Made in Britain season. The adaptation of David Park’s award winning book (reviewed) examines...
• Archbishop of Canterbury reflecting on religiously-justified violence during his Belfast lecture
  on Feb 8, 2016 in audio Belfast religion
  Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was back in Belfast tonight to deliver the Church of Ireland’s annual theological lecture at Queen’s University, reflecting on the nature of religiously-justified violence and particularly on the nature of th...

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