Festivals > Celtic Connections


Glasgow January 16–February 2 The annual roots festival is a broad church that embraces everything from traditional, folk and world to Americana, jazz and indie. The line-up includes Oysterband, KT Tunstall and Field Music. https://tinyurl.com/yse64g8f


poor disposal of waste from a former steelworks resulted in birth defects. Jack Thorne’s four-parter stars Jodie Whittaker, Robert Carlyle and Rory Kinnear. https://tinyurl.com/pao8n7l


Film > La Cocina


December 26 General release In the 1960s, Arnold Wesker was the angry young playwright whose Centre 42 took theatre to the workers. In La Cocina, Wesker’s The Kitchen is relocated to a Times Square restaurant where workers are ground down by exploitation. https://tinyurl.com/2xwjlnab


Theatre > The Autobiography of a Cad


Television > Toxic Town


Netflix Winter The town in question is Corby where, for the decade or more from 1985,


Watermill Theatre, Newbury February 7–March 22 Ian Hislop collaborates with Nick Newman to adapt the satirical novel by AG Macdonell. https://tinyurl.com/26h9jnvb


Spotlight Fair means or foul


If you are ever stuck for a question in an interview, try asking your subject if they are ambitious. Their answers can be illuminating. After the pandemic,


priorities shifted and so have answers. People now wonder what they were playing at as they elbowed their way up. Whether this is good


or bad is considered by Stefan Stern in Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition. It is not a literary study, but something between a self-help manual, management


handbook and psychological investigation. Stern, who has


contributed to the BBC, the Financial Times and The Guardian, uses Shakespeare’s play as a framework to help distinguish types of behaviour. Where is the


line between the sociopathic ambition we see in Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, and the less destructive drive that produces, say, Paul McCartney? Lady Macbeth urging her husband to plan ahead is a good thing – suggesting he bump off the king, less so. Stern takes an


ambivalent position in a thought-provoking book that draws on a spectrum of sources to raise questions about achievement, fulfilment and happiness – and, in the end, mortality itself. Fair or Foul: the


Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, Unbound, out now https://tinyurl. com/2d87ntgk


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