Ismene Brown
Bio
Dr Ismene Brown designed and launched the original version of The Arts Desk in 2009, and was the Site Coordinator and a board director for three years, as well as its dance editor. A musician trained at the Royal College of Music, she has been dance critic for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and has also written for TAD on classical music, theatre, TV and film. Since then she has gained an MA at UCL and DPhil at Oxford University for work on the Soviet politician and arts minister Ekaterina Furtseva.
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Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Linbury Theatre review - to...
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First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Ad...
I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my new play The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse. The cast places a cake on...
Timestalker review – she's lost control again
Unlike the controversial Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which challenges many of the same attitudes towards sexual harassment, self-delusion...
Kanga, Manchester Collective, Singh, RNCM Manchester review...
Of all the inventive and enterprising things Manchester Collective do, it’s most often been the playing of a string ensemble led from first desk...
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' a...
Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater, “terrified” of making a full-length...
The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - three bro...
Merchant bankers then eh? It’s not a slang term of abuse for nothing, as the middlemen collecting the crumbs off the cake (in...
Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor review - Mozartian marriage...
Of all the ingenues in all the world of golden TV sitcom, Felicity Kendal was the most innocent, the most wicked, the most deceptive, with an...
Album: Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood
Immanuel Wilkins’s third Blue Note Album – Blues Blood – has a big concept behind it. According...
Brace Brace, Royal Court review - too slender to satisfy
Air travel is bad for us. Yes, yes, I know we need planes to take us long distances, but look at the downside: not only the carbon footprint, but...
First Person: Tim Etchells on 40 years of making a noise wit...
Forced Entertainment is a theatre company based in Sheffield, touring original performances around the world. The core group of 6 artists has been...