MOVIE: BACK TO BLACK
Following the success of the Bob Marley biopic One Love, here comes another portrait of a phenomenal talent gone too soon, Amy Winehouse, in director Sam Taylor-Wood's take on the tragic soul diva's life and times. Newcomer Marisa Abela dons the mascara, and does her own vocals (Cinemas nationwide)
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BOOK: HAGSTONE
The eagerly-anticipated debut novel from critic, memoirist and broadcaster Sinead Gleeson is an atmospheric tale of faith, nature and desire on an Irish island, where solitary artist Nell is commissioned by a reclusive community of women to create an artwork, setting in motion a chain of events that forever changes the lives of all involved. She talks Hagstone to Miriam O'Callaghan below (4th Estate, out now)
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THEATRE: CHILDREN OF THE SUN
Rough Magic and the Abbey Theatre present a 'radical' new adaptation by Hilary Fannin of Maxim Gorky's classic Russian play, a dark familial comedy reimagined for today's crazy world and directed by Lynne Parker with an ensemble that includes Aislín McGuckin, Fiona Bell Stuart Graham and Rebecca O'Mara - find out more here (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 13th April - 11th May)
VISUAL ART: APPROX 1 SECOND OF A SWEET KISS
The new show from artist Lisa Freeman offers a five-channel synced film installation following a young woman through an unfamiliar city, she meets several people with (in the artist's words) 'their own sets of expectations and forms of communication' - it's an enigmatic work that proposes intimacy as a method of resistance (Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, until 19th May)
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MUSIC: THE TORTURED POET'S DEPARTMENT
Tay-tay minus 7 - the countdown has begun... First one cultural icon, Beyonce, drops her Cowboy Carter album, now here comes another, as newly minted pop billionaire Taylor Swift follows her Grammy Album Of The Year-winning Midnights with a new set of soon-to-be-standards that includes appearances from Florence And The Machine and Post Malone, ahead of her sold-out Dublin shows this summer. Guess what? It's gonna be massive (Streaming 19th April)
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