Marianka Swain
Bio
Marianka Swain is a London-based writer and editor. She is the UK Editor-in-Chief of BroadwayWorld, and also covers the arts for outlets such as the Ham & High and Islington Gazette newspapers, Dancing Times and MoveTo Town & Country magazines, and TodayTix. You can find further work on www.mkmswain.com or follow her on Twitter @mkmswain
Articles By Marianka Swain
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Santosh review - powerful study of prejudice and police corr...
Held up by the censors in India though screened at Cannes and nominated for an International Oscar, Sandhya Suri’s 2024 film ...
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Ballet review - Shakespeare without...
1965 was a year of change in Britain. It saw the abolition of the death penalty and the arrival of the Race Relations Act. It was the year of the...
Lizz Wright, Barbican review - sweet inspiration
Lizz Wright’s exquisite singing breaks all boundaries between soul, gospel and jazz. In so doing she channels many interwoven strands of the...
Wardruna, Symphony Hall, Birmingham review - Einar Selvik...
Wardruna are something of a modern musical phenomenon. Part Scandinavian folk revival, part prog rock epic and part pagan ritual, their wide-...
Album: Billy Hart Quartet - Just
There was a telling remark in Wynton Marsalis’s recent interview with Katty Kay for the BBC show “Influential”. Talking about how jazz functions...
Dear England, National Theatre review - extra time for stirr...
With qualifying about to begin for the soccer...
Flow review - come the apocalypse, cue the animals
I so wanted to like Flow. I’d heard good things from usually reliable critic friends who’d seen it already and told me it had...
Album: Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
Going by the sounds of her new album, it wouldn’t unreasonable to assume that Greentea Peng enjoys sucking on a spliff every once in a while. ...
Adolescence, Netflix review - Stephen Graham battles the pha...
A dictionary definition of adolescence is “the transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood”, but in this four-...