HolocaustThe story of a family of dwarves snatched from the gas chamber by Josef Mengele himself sounded incredible. But how to verify the testimony of Holocaust survivors? And should you even try?'I was saved by the grace of the devil," Holocaust survivor Perla Ovitz told us. Again and again, she recounted in detail how she and her family were taken to the gas chamber and ordered to strip naked. A heavy door opened and they were pushed inside.
TheatreReviewApollo theatre, London Joss Stone and Dave Stewart’s strangely forgettable score does little to lift this musical but there are some wonderful set pieces For the millions of readers held rapt by Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel, about a woman who falls in love with a time traveller, this might feel like a trip back in time. But alongside the safety of adapting a bestseller on stage, there is a degree of chutzpah in theatrically realising a romance with a dizzying temporal complexity and non-chronological narrative.
The ObserverPop and rockReview(4AD) The moody folk rockers make a welcome return with beautifully arranged songs exploring long-distance relationships and the struggle to be sober Daughter are not the easiest band to place geographically or musically. The London trio all live in different cities now, and their sound has slowly mutated since their bleakly brilliant debut, If You Leave, in 2013. Their comfort zone remains moody indie folk rock, somewhere on the road between forgotten 4AD trailblazers Pale Saints and the Cure’s stadium shoegaze.
Warning: this video contains graphic scenes from the McKamey Manor ‘extreme haunt’ experience. Video by Mae Ryan GuardianHalloweenAt McKamey Manor, people pay to be kidnapped, bound, masked, slapped, stomped on and held under water over an eight-hour ‘tour’. But unlike other ‘extreme haunts’ of the same variety, here there’s no safe word to make it stop On a balmy California morning, three daredevils park in front of an elementary school and lean against their cars, trying to appear nonchalant as they wait to be kidnapped.
Happy Valley: episode-by-episodeTelevisionDanger seemed to lurk at every turn in this penultimate episode of the BBC drama. Catherine and her nemesis are now firmly locked on collision course Spoiler alert: this recap is published after Happy Valley airs on BBC One in the UK. Do not read on if you haven’t watched episode five. A nerve-rattling hour left events in Calder Valley painfully poised for the finale. Here’s your forensic report on the tense penultimate episode …