Battle plans

The Institute of Ideas’ flagship Battle of Ideas festival is now just five weeks away, on the weekend of 30 and 31 October at the Royal College of Art in London. Watch this space for book reviews and Battle in Print essays on the many topics to be discussed. In addition to the complete festival programme, a handy festival weekend timetable [PDF] is now available online.

This week in London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews Aliens, starring Mackenzie Crook and Ralf Little at the Bush, as well as Complicite’s A Disappearing Number at the Novello, while Simon Watt reviews Pieces of Vincent at the Arcola. Meanwhile Dan Schneider looks back at Miklos Jancso’s classic but contentious war film, The Red and the White.

24 September 2010