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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Tchaikovsky's Wife review - husband material

Sunday, 31 December 2023 Read more...

Angela Leighton: Something, I Forget review - the art of letting go

Monday, 18 December 2023 Read more...

Dance First - the travails of Samuel Beckett

Saturday, 04 November 2023 Read more...

Powell and Pressburger: Battleships and Byron

Saturday, 28 October 2023 Read more...

Our River... Our Sky review - another people's war

Wednesday, 25 October 2023 Read more...

Powell and Pressburger's 'The Red Shoes' - art and nothing but

Saturday, 21 October 2023 Read more...

20 Days in Mariupol review - carnage in a dying Ukrainian city

Friday, 06 October 2023 Read more...

Strange Way of Life review - Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western

Tuesday, 26 September 2023 Read more...

Side By Side Ukrainian Film Festival, Curzon Soho - cameras of courage and resistance

Wednesday, 20 September 2023 Read more...

Mercy Falls review - horror in the Highlands

Saturday, 02 September 2023 Read more...

The Red Shoes: Next Step review - teen dancer's crisis

Friday, 25 August 2023 Read more...

Lie With Me review - a bittersweet enchantment

Friday, 18 August 2023 Read more...

Masha Karp: George Orwell and Russia review - dystopia's reality

Thursday, 10 August 2023 Read more...

A Kind of Kidnapping review - claustrophobic class-division satire

Saturday, 15 July 2023 Read more...

Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city speaks its multitudes

Saturday, 10 June 2023 Read more...

The Blue Caftan review - unstitching repression in Morocco

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 Read more...

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona, RSC, Stratford review - not qui...

I have two guilty secrets about the theatre – okay, two I’m prepared to own up to right here, right now. I quite enjoy some...

Beating Hearts review - kiss kiss, slam slam

Andrew Garfield was 29 when he played the teenage Spiderman and Jennifer Grey was 27 when she took on a decade-younger-than-her character called “...

Album: Emma Smith - Bitter Orange

Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now...

BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - so...

You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and...

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh Intern...

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns....

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / Undersigned

The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance...

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked s...

The Canadian-Korean director Celine Song burst onto the scene with her debut feature, Past Lives, two years ago, a bittersweet...

Album: Marissa Nadler - New Radiations

“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song...

BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxurie...

Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop....