arts


Comedy The Guilty Feminist On tour Deborah Frances-White hits the road to record her podcast in front of a live audience. Be badly behaved in the audience


as she explains how she feels guilty at not being a very good feminist. https:// deborahfrances- white.com


Mark Thomas On tour


Mark Thomas is 54, the NHS is 70, and national average life expectancy in the UK is 84. If Mark makes it to 84, the NHS will be 100 – what will they both look like? Based on a series of interviews with


experts on and within the NHS, Mark uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in. https://markthomasinfo.co.uk


Film


Loro 1 Released 12 April This comedy – comedy, not biopic – by director and social critic Paolo Sorrentino about Silvio Berlusconi and politician-bribing escorts is merely the first half of the drama. It was released in Italy last April; the


sequel, Loro 2, was shown in May. The first part grossed €4 million in one day – this is our chance to see what the fuss is about.


At Eternity’s Gate Released March 29 Shot in France in places where Vincent Van Gogh lived, this film stars Willem Dafoe as the tortured painter as he enters his last days


Performance Curtains raised at union HQ’s theatre


London’s newest venue is very close to home for the NUJ. As a matter of fact, it IS in the NUJ’s home. Run by the Workers’ Beer


Company, the team behind the award-winning Bread and Roses Theatre in the


Clapham, the newly founded Chapel Playhouse is in the basement of the NUJ’s HQ at Headland House. A wide range of theatre,


comedy – Shappi Khorsandi and Mark Dolan are two of the names to feature – and


cabaret is promised … and all within five minutes’s walk from London’s King’s Cross station. NUJ general secretary


Michelle Stanistreet said: “Having the team at Bread and Roses is a brilliant


opportunity to create a space that attracts NUJ members and the wider journalistic community, but also acts as a hub for other trade unionists. “I’m a strong believer


that opening up the buildings that trade unions inhabit, and using them for


cultural and social gatherings is a great way of showcasing what we do to the many prospective members out there who have yet to join our movement.” www.chapelplayhouse.co.uk


theJournalist | 25 Music and spoken word Remarkable, ordinary lives


TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and Beast of Bolsover Dennis Skinner MP are just two of the star performers on Robb Johnson’s latest opus, Ordinary Giants. The triple album about the life


and times of Johnson’s father, Ron, also includes contributions from Roy Bailey, Maddy Carty, Alan Clayson, Matthew Crampton, Tracey Curtis, Claire Martin, Rory McLeod, Phil Odgers, Tom Robinson, Fae Simon, Justin Sullivan, Miranda Sykes, Bobby Valentino, Steve White – and the children of Hertford Infants School,


where Johnson worked as a reception teacher. His previous song suite, Gentle


Men, used the biographies of his grandfathers to explore the First World War and its consequences. This was hailed as a ‘folk classic’ by Robin Denselow in the Guardian, with Billy Bragg considering it “a wonderful mixture of the political and the personal”. Ordinary Giants consists of more


than 50 songs and spoken word pieces, looking at Ron’s life, recounting how as a young man he volunteered for the RAF to fight against fascism and, after the war,


dedicated his life to state education. With his chronicle of unremarked


yet remarkable lives, lived by ordinary people through extraordinary times, and a celebration of their aspirations, endurance and achievements. Johnson records a funny, moving and, above all, fitting musical tribute to his father and his times. www.irregularrecords.co.uk


at the age of just 37. More of a personal reimagining than historical account, Julian Schnabel’s film is earning rave reviews. www.ateternitysgate-film.com


Music


Paul Heaton and Jacquie Abbott 20 and 21 June Edgeley Park, Stockport The former Housemartins vocalist and Beautiful South duo are playing consecutive nights at Stockport County FC. Support comes from former Pulp


guitarist Richard Hawley. There aren’t many tickets left, so you’d better hurry up. https://t.co/ZMZXYHDZcm


Cork International Choral Festival 1-5 May One of Europe’s premier international choral festivals, this event welcomes choirs from across the world for a programme of gala concerts, schools’ concerts, competitions and world-class performances. This is, I’m sure we can agree, something to sing about. www.corkchoral.ie


Sleaford Mods/Liines March, April, May On tour A brilliant double-bill of shouty bands. Nottingham electro-punks Sleaford Mods take all-women Manchester post-punks Liines on tour.


Both bands are very exciting


live, so I’m in no way clutching at straws when I say Liines have been


compared to London-based Desperate Journalist. https://sleaford-mods.myshopify. com/pages/home


Television MotherFatherSon BBC 2


This eight-part drama, scheduled to hit our screens later this year, looks at the workings of one of the most powerful families in the world who, naturally enough,


own a UK newspaper. Richard Gere (in his first major TV


role) plays a self-made American businessman, Helen McCrory plays his estranged wife and Billy Howle plays their son who actually runs the newspaper. Nothing like the Murdochs, then.


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