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Ruby Eastwood

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ruby Eastwood

    ‘These works are still quite raw for me. I haven’t really talked about this before’ (opens the original)

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    In 2022, remarkable images began to emerge from the small Tuscan commune of San Casciano dei Bagni, human figures in bronze rising from the mud, scarcely tarnished after 2,300 years underground. Margaret Corcoran remembers seeing some of the photographs and immediately feeling that the figures would somehow enter her work. The artist went to her studio and began to sketch them. It’s a familiar process for Corcoran, whose practice often begins with reading the news in the morning and carrying t

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Ruby Eastwood

    Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis: ‘It’s not for everyone. But I feel very alive when I watch it’ (opens the original)

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    It’s the final play Sarah Kane wrote before she killed herself at the age of 28. A crafted work of art and a philosophical inquiry into suicide, 4.48 Psychosis is like a bolt of lightning in its purity and intensity. At the same time, it’s hard to get away from the idea it’s a suicide note. That’s not the only reason it’s so challenging to put on. It has no named characters and no stage directions. Instead, Kane, who died in 1999, gives us a fragmented text out of which different voice

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Ruby Eastwood

    Hysterically Shopping! To Some Sort of End review: This critique of consumer culture is a tough one to sell (opens the original)

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    It’s a little depressing to see so much money apparently lavished on something that seems so conceptually underwhelming. During the 80 minutes of this pop opera I find myself imagining better shows encoded in its symbols and gestures, or tapped out in Morse, searching for meaning in it all. Surely this can’t just be a bafflingly straightforward and dated critique of consumer culture. Maybe I’m getting it wrong. Maybe it’s actually a masterpiece for the age of brain rot, a depiction of th

  4. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Ruby Eastwood

    ‘Lourdes is like a holy Blackpool or divine Las Vegas. We’re not in angelic land’ (opens the original)

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    Lourdes is a new musical about pilgrimage, the need for miracles, and what we do in the face of imminent mortality, whether our own or that of someone we love. For its writer, Xnthony, the question was how to look honestly at death without becoming solemn. His answer came partly from Lourdes itself, a place he has visited three times. Growing up in rural Ireland, Catholicism was ambient. “You can’t help but feel it’s in your DNA,” he says. His first two trips were as a teenager, when pil

  5. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ruby Eastwood

    A Moon for the Misbegotten: ‘When people are ready for this play, it is a balm on them’ (opens the original)

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    Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten is a beautiful, sad, humane play about broken people and the possibility of redemption. It’s also dated and demanding: its pace is slow, and its intimate study of drunkenness and self-loathing can feel recursive, claustrophobic. One O’Neill scholar, Travis Bogard, pretty much summed up the tone of critical consensus when he declared the play “doomed to failure without superb acting”. Lorcan Cranitch and Eileen Walsh, who play the main roles

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