Television
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1 week agoFirewing at Hampstead Theatre
Firewing is a play about an aging wildlife photographer and his apprentice, exploring themes of mentorship, generational conflict, and hidden motives.
The season follows country club manager Josh and his wife Lindsay, who are caught almost coming to blows while arguing in their home. Two of their younger employees-fiancées Austin and Ashley-record the incident and question what to do with the footage.
Julian Sklar, a star of the '60s and '70s, has spent decades in retreat, living off his notoriety and persona as an art curmudgeon, while Lori Butler, with considerable talent, struggles to make ends meet working at a food truck.
A Concern call centre manager who claimed multiple bullying and harassment complaints against him were down to a "Gen Z/woke alliance" at work has lost a legal challenge to his sacking.
In "Me and the Major," a scintillating blues harp soundtracks a pointless circular disagreement with an officious Boomer as to whether the Queen's army is where one goes to learn to be a man. Where does one go to learn to be a man? Or to learn anything, for that matter? The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son.
Those of us in the latter two categories blame everyone older than us for the dire state of the world today (a viewpoint that sometimes ignores the fact that the world has been getting worse since the big bang). And let's face it, it's impossible to not be bewildered and feel attacked by people younger than you when they automatically dismiss your life experiences, start speaking seemingly in code (I still don't know what six-seven means) and laugh at your idea of fashion.