To beat the winter blues, I have treated myself to two excellent pieces of escapism. , open until 2 March at the Garden Museum, proved a thoroughly engaging exhibition full of great London morsels. Who knew that the city鈥檚 Southwark borough once had its own zoo?
I also enjoyed (pictured above) at London鈥檚 Southbank Centre last month, directed by 艁ukasz Twarkowski. This mesmerising piece of theatre is based on a book by . It invited audiences to think big 鈥� what does it mean to be human, do machines feel 鈥� as they wandered about, peering into a giant neon cube, the spaceship where the action took place.
There, humans and humanoids developed relationships under the menacing eye of the mysterious Organisation. The production was outrageously ambitious technically and offered an immersive visual and sonic feast. Think TV鈥檚 Severance (in space) meets Spike Jonze鈥檚 Her.
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