Saturday Review - 05/06/2010

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Liz Jensen, David Schneider and Cahal Dallat review the week's cultural highlights including The Killer Inside Me and Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor. The Killer Inside Me is Michael Winterbottom's film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1952 pulp classic. Casey Affleck stars as the unassuming small town sheriff's deputy Lou Ford who reveals a very dark side. Joseph O'Connor's novel Ghost Light tells the story of Molly Allgood, an actress from the tenements of Dublin who had an affair with the celebrated playwright J.M. Synge. The Late Middle Classes is a play by Simon Gray which has finally made it into the West End more than ten years after its first performance. In David Leveaux's production at the Donmar Warehouse, Robert Glenister is the piano teacher whose intentions towards his young pupil are questioned by the boy's parents. Father and Son is a four part drama on ITV1, written by Frank Deasy, and starring Dougray Scott as a former gangland kingpin who plunges back into the murky waters of Manchester's underworld to try to save his teenage son. Anthony Gormley's show Test Sites at White Cube Mason's Yard in London features the piece Breathing Space III which consists of a lattice of gently glowing rectangles in the gallery's darkened basement. The space is periodically flooded with light by a bank of powerful tungsten lamps to recharge the lattice's photoluminescent coating. Producer: Torquil MacLeod.