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Hello, I'm Erin. I regularly post reviews and commentary on art, theatre, culture and history from London and beyond.

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Enter a world of ancient creatures and modern problems, blending poetry, AI animation, music, dance and live painting. It's Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham.

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Mountains and Seas – Song of Today - Omnibus Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 is a new multidisciplinary work co-produced by Kakilang. A visually impressive if somewhat impenetrable world of ancient creatures becomes a tool to confro...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The V&A's Marie Antoinette Style is a sumptuous exhibition which explores the French queen's design legacy. Is it beautiful? Yes. Do I wish it was just a touch more political? Also yes.

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Marie Antoinette Style - V&A, London – Salterton Arts Review
The V&A’s latest blockbuster exhibition Marie Antoinette Style focuses on the queen’s lasting impact on fashion, design and art. Are there no more pressing lessons to learn from this stylish queen? Ma...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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La Bella Bimba is full of 1920s cabaret charm, mischief and immigrant storytelling. Catch it tonight at the Canal Café Theatre, or look out for future dates.

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La Bella Bimba! - Theatre Gamine / Canal Café Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Carlotta and Cecilia dream of life as Broadway stars in La Bella Bimba! Will they make it, or will 1920s New York be too harsh a place for these two Italian girls? La Bella Bimba! I wrote when I saw C...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! roars louder than ever ✊️🦁 On tour around the UK until 6 December so get booking!

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We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! - Townsend Theatre Productions / Sands Films Studio, London – Salterton Arts Review
Townsend Theatre Productions revive We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Grunwick dispute in Willesden, North London. The Story of the Grunwick Strike Last night’s theatr...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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In a wonderful one-off performance on Sunday I got to know the father of modern Egyptian music. Abdelwahab was a symphonic concert to remember!

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📸 Naela El-Assaad

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Abdelwahab - Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London – Salterton Arts Review
Abdelwahab, a one-off performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, explores the music and legacy of father of modern Egyptian music Mohamed Abdelwahab. Abdelwahab at Theatre Royal Drury Lane I had a w...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A female Hamlet and a haunted coat: Ashley Amodeo's Crownless is a fast-paced, funny and feminist take on a classic.

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Crownless - Voila! Theatre Festival / Etcetera Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Crownless puts a new spin on Hamlet, incorporating text from the original and from feminist writers. Clever and fast-paced, this is a worthwhile watch. Crownless I’ve written previously about how I fe...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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SOLO hits that nerve between ambition and collapse. A sharp, physical performance and a portrait of a mind trying to hold itself together. On now as part of Voila! Theatre Festival.

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SOLO - Voila! Theatre Festival / Barons Court Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Duccio Baldasseroni invites us right into the psyche of a “professional actor and writer” in SOLO. SOLO SOLO is a somewhat idiosyncratic piece, but I found myself drawn to it. On now at the Barons Cou...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Precipice at New Diorama Theatre: ambitious, musically bold, and strangely comforting in its admission that facing the end of the world is confusing for everyone.

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📸 (c) Alex Brenner
Precipice - New Diorama Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Precipice is an ambitious, musically inventive new musical that, despite some limitations, tackles the end of the world with more honesty, humour and humanity than you’d expect from a two-hour show se...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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L'Indiscipline draws on an astonishing true story, and uses it to put its audience in the role of exploitative voyeur of psychiatric patients.

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L'Indiscipline - Voila! Theatre Festival / Theatro Technis, London – Salterton Arts Review
Threepenny Collective mine a dark story from history in L’Indiscipline, making its English-language debut as part of Voila! Theatre Festival. Content warning: discusses historic treatment of mental il...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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After Sunday is an excellent new play at the Bush Theatre. Touching and unflinching, this Caribbean cooking group is a real pressure cooker.

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📸 Nicola Young

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After Sunday - Bush Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Sophia Griffin’s After Sunday explores healing and harm in a medium-secure hospital’s weekly Caribbean cooking group. After Sunday I’m not sure that the saying ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Dark Secrets: An Esoteric Exhibition is on now at The Vaults in Waterloo. With 27 rooms going into every supernatural subject, there's something for everyone. Mostly entertainment but fairly educational, too.

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Dark Secrets: An Esoteric Exhibition - The Vaults, London – Salterton Arts Review
Aimed at those with a deep interest in the mysteries of the world or the macabre, Dark Secrets can be fun as long as you take it for what it is. Dark Secrets It’s funny sometimes going back to a place...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Curating asks us to consider the decisions we make and don't make, and what meaning they will have when we look back on our lives. Last night tonight at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

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📸 (c) Miranda Mazzarella
Curating - 28&2 Productions / Old Red Lion Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
Curating asks us to consider what the choices we make (or don’t) will mean to us once time’s run out. Curating Do we have some sort of innate fear, in the modern age, that the afterlife will involve p...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Today's post is on Design and Disability at the V&A, a step in the right direction for disability representation in a major museum setting, despite some curatorial and institutional limitations.

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Design and Disability - V&A, London – Salterton Arts Review
V&A’s Design and Disability celebrates disabled creativity and inclusive design, highlighting access, innovation and identity in contemporary culture.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Would you dare to make three wishes on a magic monkey's paw? Just be careful what you wish for... Not long now to catch The Monkey's Paw at the Hope Theatre, based on W. W. Jacobs' short story.

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The Monkey's Paw - The Hope Theatre, London (LAST CHANCE TO SEE) – Salterton Arts Review
Inventive set design, expressive movement, and strong direction make The Monkey’s Paw at The Hope Theatre an atmospheric Halloween treat.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The Tien Shan Mountains make for a wonderful hiking destination. They're also a great spot to learn more about myth and history in the context of a minor Silk Road trail.

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Trekking the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan – Salterton Arts Review
A description of a hike through the Tien Shan Mountains, from a cultural and historic point of view.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Finally in Bishkek we have the M. V. Frunze House Museum, a proper Soviet time capsule well worth a visit. Stay tuned in the coming days for posts from the Kyrgyz countryside 🏞

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M. V. Frunze House Museum (М. В. Фрунзенин Үй-музейи), Bishkek – Salterton Arts Review
A childhood home encased in concrete, a museum preserved in amber: the M. V. Frunze House Museum is a great final stop in Bishkek. One Final Museum in Bishkek We’ve had a pretty good look around Bishk...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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From national history we move on today to the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Gapara Aitieva. Applied arts, special exhibitions and plenty of Socialist Realism in a purpose-built Soviet Brutalist building.

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Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Gapara Aitieva (Кыргызский Национальный Музей Изобразительных Искусств имeни Гапара Айтиева), Bishkek – Salterton Arts Review
A description of a visit to the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Gapara Aitieva, including temporary exhibitions as of August 2025.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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On the blog today we are checking out the National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic, my museum pick for visitors to Bishkek.

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#bishkek #kyrgyzstan #bishkekmuseum #kyrgyzhistory #nationalhistorymuseum #museums #museumlover #centralasia
National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic (Кыргыз Республикасынын Улуттук тарых музейи), Bishkek – Salterton Arts Review
A review of the National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek, exploring its modern displays of nomadic culture, Soviet history, and contemporary Kyrgyz identity.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Today's post is the first museum we're visiting in Bishkek: a very memorable experience and a lesson in persistence. It's the Museum of the National Academy of Arts T. Sadykova.

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Museum of the National Academy of Arts. T. Sadykova (Музей национальной академии художеств им. Т. Садыкова), Bishkek – Salterton Arts Review
A description of a unique visitor experience at the Museum of the National Academy of Arts. T. Sadykova (Tinibek Sadykov).
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October 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The next few posts on the blog are from a recent trip I took to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Starting today with a guide to its capital Bishkek!

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#bishkek #kyrgyzstan #alatoosquare #centralasia #visitbishkek #visitkyrgyzstan #travelguide
48 Hours in Bishkek - A Guide for Culture Lovers – Salterton Arts Review
A couple of days in Bishkek is just about long enough to start to get a feel for Kyrgyzstan’s capital. Why not extend it just a little and add in a daytrip? 48 Hours in Bishkek A recent trip to Kyrgyz...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Catch Frankenstein in a new, gender-swapped adaptation by British Touring Shakespeare. Perfect for Halloween, it's on until 1 November at the Bridge House Theatre in Penge 🎃

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Frankenstein - British Touring Shakespeare / Bridge House Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
A feminist reworking of Frankenstein by British Touring Shakespeare brings new life to Gothic horror. On at the Bridge House Theatre just in time for Halloween. Frankenstein – British Touring Shakespe...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories reclaims space for Black experience in art and history. The artist's biggest UK show to date, go see it now at the Royal Academy.

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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories - Royal Academy, London – Salterton Arts Review
Kerry James Marshall presents The Histories, a vibrant exploration of Black life and art historical dialogue.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Finally from Montpellier, let's take a look at the Musée Fabre's temporary exhibition, Pierre Soulages: La Rencontre.

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Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre - Musée Fabre, Montpellier – Salterton Arts Review
Showing inspirations and connections beyond Pierre Soulages’ work alone, the Musée Fabre shows new sides to “the painter of black”. Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre Any serious discussion of the Musée Fa...
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October 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Get lost in art history at the wonderful Musée Fabre in Montpellier. Read today's post to find out more, including the new sport of Bruyas-spotting 👀

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Le Musée Fabre, Montpellier – Salterton Arts Review
Montpellier’s main art museum, the Musée Fabre combines collections and acquisitions to form a classic art historical overview in a historic setting. Just Enough Time for One Museum If you’ve been fol...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Today on the blog we start a mini trip to Montpellier. Today we wander the city for an afternoon as a quick taster, and next we will visit the Musée Fabre.

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A Montpellier Taster For Culture Lovers – Salterton Arts Review
With an afternoon to spare, how much of Montpellier can we see, and is it enough to get a feel for the city? Join us as we answer these questions, perhaps picking up inspiration for your own trip in t...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM