childhood
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Opera Holland ParkSunday, 03 August 2014
“What does opera have to say to the under-30s?” asked Alexandra Coghlan on theartsdesk yesterday. The question “what does opera have to say to the under-10s?” has had to wait until today. For although yesterday afternoon’s performance of Will Todd’s... Read more... |
Gallery: CBeebies PromSunday, 27 July 2014
In recent years the BBC Proms have woken up to the idea that an audience for classical music can be captured young. The Doctor Who Prom was the first to harness a BBC brand and turn it into a stealthy orchestral primer. The Horrible Histories has... Read more... |
BoyhoodWednesday, 09 July 2014
Coming-of-agers, of which we’ve seen an awful lot recently, focus on a turning point in a child’s life: not so much the moment they transition from child to adult as the moment a child is first drawn into the adult world - retreat might be possible... Read more... |
Fostering & Me with Lorraine Pascale, BBC TwoThursday, 19 June 2014
My heart sank when Lorraine Pascale’s documentary on fostering began with her making cakes with Junior, a 10-year-old boy in care. I feared Bake Off meets Who Do You Think You Are?, but those worries quickly faded as Pascale told her extraordinary... Read more... |
Orange Tree Theatre Festival, Programme 1, Orange Tree TheatreSaturday, 14 June 2014
Sam Walters, Britain's longest-serving artistic director of a theatre (43 years!), looks to the past as well as the future with his Orange Tree swansong. This varied festival features nine plays and six world premieres across two programmes, all of... Read more... |
T.S. SpivetMonday, 09 June 2014
The French auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet is best known and loved for his early work: Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and (conveniently ignoring Alien: Resurrection) Amélie. These films introduced him as a director with a very particular, rather... Read more... |
I Believe In Unicorns, Brighton Dome Studio TheatreSunday, 25 May 2014
At first sight this children's theatre production could seem like a drab story circle for bored bairns. But despite a rocky start, I Believe In Unicorns develops into something rather magical.After finding her feet, solo performer and fabulist... Read more... |
Child Of LightFriday, 02 May 2014
There are many admirable things about Child Of Light. It's the game that the core team behind Far Cry 3 – the mega-action, gnarly dude first-person shooter ‑ went on to work on next. Yet, it's difficult to imagine two games further from each other.... Read more... |
In BloomTuesday, 29 April 2014
The teenage heroines of In Bloom may be only 14, but in the world in which they live – the film is set in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in 1992 – they are forced to act much older, to take on responsibilities beyond their ages. The action of the film... Read more... |
SuzanneSaturday, 15 March 2014
As she proved in her exquisite debut Love Like Poison, French director Katell Quillévéré has an astonishing knack for delicately told stories which, in their sensitivity to character and credibility, pack a weighty emotional punch. And so it goes in... Read more... |
Shlomo, Purcell RoomThursday, 20 February 2014
Ever since becoming a parent – given that it's my job to look at how music connects to its audience – thoughts about what gets children engaged with it have rarely been far from my mind. It brings home a lot of questions about how much of our... Read more... |
DVD: What Maisie KnewTuesday, 14 January 2014
The dishonourable parents call each other "fucking headcase" and "asshole" in front of the child rather than "nasty horrid pig" and "your beastly papa", but the essence remains of Henry James’s social comedy with queasy undertones. As transplanted... Read more... |
