David Nice
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![Isabella Tree searches for harvest mice overlooking Knepp Castle](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/WILDING_1_Title%20Image.jpg?itok=qbw0sbjh)
Imagine you’ve inherited a castle in West Sussex plus five square miles of farmland. You continue the family tradition of mixed arable and dairy...
![The cast of Miss Julie - gooseberries for lunch?](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Katie%20Edlred%2C%20Adeline%20Waby%2C%20Freddie%20Wise%20%28cred%20Mark%20Senior%29.jpg?itok=ZBFFd2di)
You have to tiptoe around the edge of the set just to take your seat in the Park’s studio space for Lidless Theatre’s ...
![Fine Art: an early stab at Album of the Year](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Kneecap%20-%20Fine%20Art.jpg?itok=2fF9qg30)
For a band just putting out their debut album, West Belfast’s Kneecap have been courting media attention for some while and have already been seen...
![Pianist Julius Drake and baritone Andrè Schuen in an epic recital of Schumann and Larcher](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Aldeburgh%203.jpeg?itok=mtrM4MVu)
It may be unusual to begin festival coverage with praise of the overseer rather than the artists. Yet Roger Wright, who quietly leaves his post at...
![theartsdesk on Vinyl support crew have fun at our review sessions](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/v.jpg?itok=SrLjz379)
VINYL OF THE MONTH
Ariel Sharratt & Matthias Kom Never Work (BB*Island) + Ella Ronen...
![True west: Vicky Krieps and Viggo Mortensen in 'The Dead Don't Hurt'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Dead%20Don%27t%20Hurt%20Viggo%20Mortensen%20%26%20Vicky%20Krieps%20in%20nature%20%28Signature%20Entertainment%29%20.jpg?itok=uZr3Tp-x)
Viggo Mortensen has parlayed film stardom into the life of a...
![Girls Aloud possessed a cheerful, giddy nature onstage](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Girls%20Aloud%20pic.jpg?itok=Yu0pA2sA)
There was a point in this pop revival jaunt where you...
![John Grant’s ‘The Art of the Lie’: humour lightens the load](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/John%20Grant%20The%20Art%20Of%20The%20Lie.jpg?itok=YvYBnCP_)
“I feel ashamed because I couldn’t become the man that you always hoped I’d become.” The line is repeated during “Father,” The Art of the Lie’...
![It's the music, stupid - or perhaps more a comedy with musical attachments](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Merry%20Widow%201_0.jpg?itok=XnkTx-3g)
Why would anyone want to stage a work like The Merry Widow in this day and age? Silly question. It’s the music, stupid. Of...
![Mr Wickham (Adrian Lukis) ruminates on his life over a glass of wine](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Adrian%20Lukis%20in%20Being%20Mr%20Wickham%20%28photo%20James%20Findlay%29_1-sized.jpeg?itok=M4_9l3xR)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an actor tends to take a sympathetic view of the character he inhabits, however morally questionable....