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V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia

Tom Sutcliffe reviews Weston Cast Court at the V&A Museum, City of Angels at the Donmar, Tim Burton's Big Eyes, Small Books: extremely short fiction, and Mapp and Lucia on 91Èȱ¬ TV.

London's V+A Museum has just reopened the Weston Cast Court, which houses life-size plaster casts of statuary and artefacts from around Europe. It includes the museum's largest items, can it draw their largest crowds?
Larry Gelbart's City of Angels is revived at London's Donmar Warehouse. A musical about the golden age of Hollywood, it garnered awards galore 25 years ago in its original run, will this production be a winner?
Tim Burton's new film Big Eyes is about 1960s housewife Margaret Keane whose paintings of waifs with enormous dark eyes were wildly commercially successful, but her husband claimed all the glory until she decided to make a break for fame in her own right.
Small Books: We look at 3 works of extremely short fiction. Hanif Kureishi, Haruki Murakami and AN Wilson all have stories to tell, that they feel are best-suited to new diminutive formats.
The 91Èȱ¬ has remade EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia in sumptuous style; is it a new classic?

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45 minutes

BOOKS

Hanif Kureishi - A Theft: My Con Man (faber and faber)

Haruki Murakami – The Strange Library (Harvill)

AN Wilson – The Man Behind Narnia by AN Wilson (kindle single)

EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION

Weston Cast Court at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London - a permanent exhibition

FILM

FILM
Big Eyes (12A) released 26 December 2014

THEATRE

THEATRE
City of Angels (6 December 2014 - 07 February 2015)
Donmar Warehouse, London

TELEVISION

TELEVISION
Mapp and Lucia on 91Èȱ¬1
29 December at 2105
30 December at 2100
31 December at 2030

Credit

Role Contributor
Presenter Tom Sutcliffe

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Dec 2014 19:15

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