Eye in the Sky, Hotels of North America, The Suicide, Flowers, Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979
The week's cultural highlights, including Eye in the Sky starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman, Ricky Moody's Hotels of North America and Flowers starring Olivia Coleman.
Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul star in Eye in the Sky, a contemporary thriller set in the world of counter intelligence and drone warfare - is the life of a 9 year old girl acceptable collateral damage?
Rick Moody's new novel Hotels of North America has an unusual narrative voice. It takes the form of a series of hotel reviews, as written by Reginald Edward Morse, one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels -they tell his life story.
Playwright Suhayla El-Bushra takes Nikolai Erdman's Soviet classic The Suicide and sets it in contemporary urban London at London's National Theatre, starring Javone Prince from E4's Phone Shop.
A new comedy drama on Channel 4, Flowers, stars Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and features an eccentric family struggling to hold themselves together in a crumbling old house.
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 at Tate Britain shows how artists working in Britain transformed the nature of art, bringing together 70 works by 21 artists.
Last on
Eye in the Sky
is in cinemas now, certificate 15.
The Suicide
is at the National Theatre in London until 25 June 2016.
Β Images (above and left) - photo credit:Β Johan Persson
Conceptual Art
is at Tate Britain in London until 29 August 2016.
Image: Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) by Roelof Louw. Roelof Louw/Tate Patrons 2013/Aspen Art Museum 2015.
Flowers
begins on Channel 4 on Monday 25 April at 10pm.
Broadcast
- Sat 16 Apr 2016 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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