Matthew Wright
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Gigs ed and TV writer. Author of Seasick Steve: Ramblin' Man (June 2016, John Blake Books), the first book-length study of the true story behind the acclaimed hobo-bluesman.
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The Crucible, National Theatre review - visually stunning re...
How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692, is rife with...
Blonde review - Marilyn Monroe thrown to the wolves
Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is an atrocity – a ghoulish biopic...
John Gabriel Borkman, Bridge Theatre review - amusing tale...
It always feels special when a play speaks so directly to an audience that you feel and hear the ripples of recognition across the auditorium. And...
Album: Björk - fossora
Album opener “Atapos” was released as a single earlier in September, its sharply angular beats created by...
Savala Nolan: Don't Let It Get You Down review - findin...
Liminal: a word that conjures thresholds and between states. Caught between three languages – the adjective is a borrowing from the Latin...
Jews. In Their Own Words, Royal Court review - calling out a...
What is the Royal Court theatre for? Is it a...
'Serving the community means representing the narrative...
Just as I was moving from the US to the UK to begin working as the Artistic Director of the...
Album: Slipknot - The End, So Far
Make no mistake about it, Slipknot are massive. 23 years after their recording debut, they’ve had 8.5 billion streams, their sixth album,...
Yiyun Li: The Book of Goose - fame, reality and two teenage...
The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li’s fifth novel, is the...
This England, Sky Atlantic review - how Boris's No 10 g...
From underneath the messy ash-white thatch of hair, a strange mooing suddenly issues: Sir Kenneth Branagh is wrestling with Boris Johnson’s odd...