• Shake things up this Christmas: your guide to the best culture for the festive season

    Shake things up this Christmas: your guide to the best culture for the festive season
    Thinking of treating yourself to some Christmas entertainment? Our critics unwrap the best film, music, art, dance and theatre events of the seasonArabian NightsBristol Old Vic, to 6 January
    This production exploring the power of storytelling has a cracking team, with writer Sonali Bhattacharyya (Chasing Hares, Young Vic), director Blanche McIntyre (All’s Well That Ends Well, RSC) and puppetry designer Samuel Wilde (I Want My Hat Back, Little Angel). It looks set to be a playful adaptation
  • From There’s Something in the Barn to Peter Gabriel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    From There’s Something in the Barn to Peter Gabriel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
    Evil elves ruin a perfectly pleasant Norwegian B&B, while the former Genesis frontman finally shows his working-outThere’s Something in the Barn
    Out now
    Moving to a new country to open a B&B is not the sort of endeavour that ever seems to go terribly well in horror films. In this Norwegian horror-comedy, the barn attached to a Scandinavian dream home comes fully stocked with mystical elves who must be kept happy or else. And guess what? They aren’t, with undesirable consequen

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