Grimm Tales for Young and Old – review
Shoreditch Town Hall hosts Philip Pullman’s adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s classic fables
Reviews
Yoko Ono? Oh yes!
Sixties icon Yoko Ono played to a full house at Dalston’s Cafe Oto last month
My Stuff – review
Finnish docudrama is shown at at The Proud Archivist as part of Cinémathèque, a film night of distinctive world cinema
Banksy: The Room in the Elephant – review
Arcola theatre hosts play about a homeless man who is evicted from his temporary shelter after a Banksy daub makes it a work of art
Eldorado – review
How would a Western power deal with being on the receiving end of war asks Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg
The Nine O'Clock Slot – review
Ambitious play highlights the propensity of ‘paupers’ funerals’ in London and the anonymity of those left to die alone
Hackney Child – review
Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light – review
Iain Sinclair leaves Hackney for the US on a Beat poetry pilgrimage in his latest book
The White Building/Lea River Park – review
Hackney Wick’s offbeat White Building has all the hallmarks of a sensitive Olympic legacy, but the possible scrapping of the Lea River Park walkway suggests that petty politics not community is the driving force
The Olympic Park – review
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…
Olympics Aquatic Centre – review
Zaha Hadid’s London 2012 Aquatic Centre hasn’t come cheap at £269m, but it is the Olympics’ most majestic space
Radio review: Hackney Podcast
A cacophony of local voices made this haunting fiction of London after The Flood come alive
