Phoebe Boswell's new work sends Black swimmers dancing up and down the escalators at Bethnal Green, reclaiming water as a place of refuge rather than loss
With 35-degree May temperatures fresh in the memory, Lottie Delamain's new book offers an imaginative, ecological tour of gardening— from aeroponics to office cultivations, by way of John Little, the former Hackney Council gardener now training residents to grow on brownfield sites
Christine Bacon's expansive new play at the Arcola, drawn from Jason Hickel's The Divide, takes aim at 80 years of 'international development' — and is very nearly saved by a strong cast from a script that wants to do everything at once
This stage adaptation of this 2016 Persian-language horror is sharp on the politics of women's lives in wartime Tehran — and oddly literal-minded about its Djinn. Lelia Farzad leads a strong cast; the parlour tricks let them down
