The Arts Review​

Miss You by Chaos Factory. Image uncredited ***** You could be forgiven a sudden shudder of dread. Chaos Factory's multi-faceted Miss You serving up another female trauma play based on a Greek myth. Like reviewing or writing using AI, the result is often a highly polished and convincing sham passing itself off as original work. Thankfully the multidisciplinary Chaos Factory are the real deal. Harnessing myth whilst actively puncturing artistic pretensions with real world kick

Daddy Issues by Brigid Leahy. Image uncredited ***** “The old is dying and the new cannot be born” Antonio Gramsci once wrote in the prison cell of the Italian fascists. Identifying the dangerous meaning-gap arising from social discontinuity and stasis. Now, in recent culture and politics, it has felt as though the inability to conceptualise the future has created insistence to rebirth the past. To mythologise and revert to traditionalism. The trad wife lifestyle emerged as o

Gleek of the Week by Conor Burke. Image Fnati.c.ph **** Glee. A jukebox musical, TV series that ran from 2009 to 2015 promoting compassion, inclusion and acceptance. Then there's glee, described as opening yourself up to joy. Finally, twee, a sugar-rush sentimentality trying to pass as heart. Evoking the hugely popular "aw" response, as when looking at a doe-eyed puppy shivering in the rain, begging you to love him. All three in evidence in Conor Burke's suspiciously autobiog