The WOW Foundation has today announced Naomi Wolf, Shazia Mirza, Scarlett Curtis, Sandi Toksvig, Mary Robinson and more have joined its 10th anniversary festival line-up in London. WOW - Women of the World Festival runs from 6 to 8 March across International Women’s Day at Southbank Centre, London. The line-up released today includes a whole range of day pass and ticketed... Continue Reading →
Review: It’s Not Ok to Feel Blue (and other lies), curated by Scarlett Curtis
October sees the arrival of Mental Health Awareness Week and, with one in four of us in the UK now living with a mental health condition*, there's no better time to raise awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness. Step forward Scarlett Curtis. Following the success of Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies),... Continue Reading →
Review: The Things We Left Unsaid by Emma Kennedy
To say Rachel is having a bad time of late would be an understatement. Just six weeks after the death of her father she’s jilted at the altar on her wedding day, and as a result is forced to move back to the family home in Oxford with her mother, Eleanor, a renowned artist. The... Continue Reading →
Review: The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
Written by Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy tells the story of a young girl named Lottie. The daughter of German migrants who suffered terribly during the war, Lottie is an outcast at school, with no friends other than her classmate Jeremy, a fellow outsider. Following the death of her mother, Lottie develops a fascination... Continue Reading →
News: Lily James announced as special guest for Margaret Atwood Live In Cinemas
Fane Productions is delighted to announce Lily James as a special guest for Margaret Atwood Live on 10 September. The event, which takes place on the Lyttelton stage at the National Theatre, sold out within hours when it was first announced in March, but tickets are still available for over 1,300 live cinema screenings worldwide.... Continue Reading →
Review: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
The latest novel by Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl is set in Atlanta in 1890. Jo is a seventeen-year-old Chinese American girl living with her guardian Old Gin in an abandoned abolitionists’ hideaway beneath a print shop. When Jo loses her job in a hat shop, she’s forced to work for her previous employer, for... Continue Reading →
News: Margaret Atwood to celebrate publication of The Testaments with a live global cinema event and UK tour
Today it's been announced that writer Margaret Atwood will celebration the publication of The Testaments, her highly anticipated sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, with a live global cinema event followed by a UK tour. Fane Productions presents Margaret Atwood live on stage and in cinemas on Tuesday, September 10th in celebration of the global... Continue Reading →
The month ahead: February
January may have been the longest month ever but finally February is here, and with it comes a whole host of new shows to see. Here are a few of the theatre productions, events and books I’ll be blogging about this month. Theatre Fasten your seatbelts...! One of the hottest tickets of the year, the... Continue Reading →
Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
Based on the remarkable true story of Holocaust survivor Lale Solokov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is compelling tale of hope, love and survival. Heather Morris’s debut novel, one of the bestsellers of 2018, is based on years of conversations she had with Lale prior to his death in 2006. A Slovakian Jew, Lale was transported... Continue Reading →