Melina Matsoukas on Queen and Slim, Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy years reviewed, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Richard Armitage
Melina Matsoukas on her film about police violence starring Daniel Kaluuya and what if Faustus was a woman - we talk to Chris Bush about her new take on this classic story.
Director Melina Matsoukas talks about her first feature film Queen and Slim, which follows a black couple on a lackluster date pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results and the erstwhile couple decide to go on the run. Known primarily as a director of music videos for megastars like Beyonc茅, Matsoukas discusses her transition between mediums and the film鈥檚 political message.
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years is the first exhibition to survey the artist鈥檚 earliest works - pots, plates and sculptures - which he made between 1982 and 1994. Critic Jacky Klein reviews the exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath which includes pottery that addresses his regular themes of gender, identity and social class.
The life of Faust, an itinerant alchemist and astrologer in 15th century Germany, has inspired great writers through the centuries, most notably Christopher Marlowe. Now Chris Bush reinvents the story again; Faustus is a woman and, instead of using the powers of Mephistopheles for self-gratificiation she seeks the kinds of knowledge denied women through the ages, traveling through time to attain it. Stig talks to Chris Bush about her ambitious, ideas-laden new play, Faustus: That Damned Woman.
As we continue to explore risk in the arts, actor Richard Armitage speaks to us about the physical and reputational risk of being waterboarded for the filming of Spooks.
Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Hannah Robins
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Richard Armitage on being waterboarded for Spooks
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Melina Matsoukas
Queen and Slim is in cinemas from 31 Jan, cert 15
Main image: Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith
Photo credit: Universal聽
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years at , Bath until 25 May, at York Art Gallery from 12 Jun and the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
from October
Faustus: That Damned Woman
Jodie McNee
Photo credit: Manuel Harlan
Faustus: That Damned Woman is at the until 22 Feb
Risk - Richard Armitage
Richard is currently appearing in Uncle Vanya at the until 2 May
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