Amal Abdi

★★★★ Desperate Times

Side eYe Productions wowed us with the five-star triumph Dugsi Dayz last year, so we were so excited to catch latest show Desperate Times at Rich Mix. This tale of a lie getting thoroughly out of hand from emerging new writer Amal Abdi is a grin-inducing pleasure.

Members of Britain’s community of Somali women have cast aside the conventional roles they say are expected of them for the ones they really want with the help of a theatre company set up to combat exclusion in performing arts.

“Desperate Times” is the first full-length play of journalist-turned-playwright Amal Abdi, while Nadjma Abshir, who works in marketing, made her acting debut in the one-woman play.

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Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. The Devil Wears Prada’s Andy Sachs. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ Andie Anderson. If you’ve ever watched an early 2000s rom-com, you’d think that being a journalist is the most glamorous job a girl can have. And with all that glamour and glitz, surely there’d be a self-care and wellness regimen to match.

In 2021, unprecedented numbers of people left their jobs in what was dubbed the “great resignation” or the “big quit” in the US.

People of colour have been historically underrepresented in the alternative music scene.
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With the help of the Arts Council England funding, founder Sarah Shodipe set up POC ROCK to attempt to diversify her favourite music scene.
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Indie darling Phoebe Bridgers may have gained notoriety as someone who makes great music to cry to, but this weekend, as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, she channelled her energy into the true mark of a rock’n’roll renegade: smashing her guitar on stage.

At the end of 2020, groundbreaking model Halima Aden announced that she was stepping down from the catwalk. In a series of Instagram stories, the 23-year-old wrote about how her job made her feel detached from her identity and religion. "I’m taking a stand for myself, but I’m also taking a stand for all the people who lost their soul to fashion."

Nearly a decade after the release of the final film in the saga, it appears as though the Twilight series is making its comeback. It seems neither long-awaited nor warranted but that isn’t stopping Stephanie Meyer’s pack of sparkling vampires from experiencing their renaissance.

Do The Right Thing (1989). Boyz n the Hood (1991). Straight Outta Compton (2015). All key Black films, but like so many of the fundamental films in the Black canon, they tell American stories.

In the wake of 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement, many fashion brands expressed solidarity with the Black community, posting vague BLM-adjacent sentiments, blacked out squares and regurgitated hashtags on their social media platforms.

In 2013’s romantic comedy About Time, a secret is what lets the love story blossom. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, About Time follows Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) as he pursues Mary (Rachel McAdams) with the help of an old family secret revealed to him by his father (Bill Nighy).

Born on social media, dark academia sees users posting photos and videos that romanticise a passion for art and knowledge. It’s stacks of books piled high; longing for a New England university campus you’ll never visit

Since coming out of lockdown many theatres made promises of reopening to a more accessible post-pandemic world.