The Engine

GABRIEL OROZCO AT THE TATE MODERN, February 2011 The artist Gabriel Orozco was born in Mexico in 1962, began to rise to prominence in the 1990s and now lives internationally, strung out, you might say, somewhere between New York, London and Mexico City. That sounds depressingly rootless, many of the works offer testimony to his constant shifts and possible escape acts. Some of Orozco’s works imply possible new horizons but many are rooted in art college banality. An enormous chess set with hundreds of squares, fifty or so knight pieces. The knight, uniquely, is the only chess piece that has two simultaneous moves within its single board move. In psychology a knight’s move is an attempt to connect two disparate concepts or implies the disconnected or fragmented thought process of the psychotic. Modern art, Orozco is saying, is very like psychosis in its attempt to describe chaos or fragmentariness and the connections in between without collapsing into total chaos itself. Oroz...

DOUBLE FALSEHOOD By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Directed by Phil Willmott Designed by Javier De Frutos Produced by Ellie Collyer-Bristow for MokitaGrit in association with The Steam Industry The Union Theatre, Southwark 204 Union Street, London SE1 OLX www.doublefalsehood.org The issues surrounding the authorship of this play have been bubbling away for quite some time, since Double Falsehood was known in the 18th century to be a re-writing of the lost play Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The play is set in Andalucia and was originally a story told as part of Miguel Cervantes masterpiece Don Quixote. Double Falsehood was one of a number of collaborations which also included the Two Noble Kinsmen , a play which was not included in the first folio but which has come to be accepted as a work of the Shakespeare canon even though a great deal of it may be the work of Fletcher. The play was then re-written and re-presented as a lost Shakespeare wor...

SKY NEWS PROFILES PROFESSIONAL PREMIERE OF CONTROVERSIAL 'LOST' SHAKESPEARE PLAY DOUBLE FALSEHOOD By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Directed by Phil Willmott Designed by Javier De Frutos Produced by Ellie Collyer-Bristow for MokitaGrit in association with The Steam Industry The Union Theatre, Southwark 204 Union Street, London SE1 OLX 18th January − 12th February 2011 Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm Sundays at 4pm (30th January & 6th February) Tickets: £15 £5 tickets for U21s (limited availability, first two weeks only) Box Office: 0207 2619 876 Book Online: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/uniontheatre Cast: Adam Redmore, Emily Plumtree, Gabriel Vick, Jessie Lilley, Richard Franklin, Richard Morse, Sam Hoare, Stephen Boswell, Su Douglas & William Reay. www.doublefalsehood.org Next week Sky News profiles DOUBLE FALSEHOOD on Wednesday 12th January in bulletins throughout the day and on their website to include sneak scene previews, the reaction of one of Britain'...