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Front Row: The Wonder, Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly, Opera and elitism

Film The Wonder, exhibition Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly theatre company

The Wonder, Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly, Opera and elitism

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The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh, and Making Modernism at the Royal Academy reviewed

Reviews of film The Wonder starring Florence Pugh, and the Royal Academy's Making Modernism exhibition. Also, theatre company Frantic Assembly on widening the net for acting talent

With Samira Ahmed.

Guests Katy Hessel and Lillian Crawford review Florence Pugh's drama The Wonder, based on an Emma Donoghue novel, and the Royal Academy's Making Modernism exhibition, which explores the lives of a group of female artists active in Germany in the early twentieth century.

The theatre company Frantic Assembly is running a nationwide programme to find the actors of the future, hopefully from unexpected places. Luke Jones talks to Frantic Assembly’s artistic director Scott Graham about their plan to get a wider range of young people into theatre and to some of the aspiring actors taking part in this year’s programme. 

As the fallout of the Arts Council announcements continues, Lillian Crawford and composer Gavin Higgins consider why opera is still being branded elitist and what can be done about it.

Producer: Ellie Bury

Photo credit: Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in The Wonder. Cr. Aidan Monaghan

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