Ivory Coast football team This article is more than 9 years oldSerey Die plays for Ivory Coast after shedding tears for fatherThis article is more than 9 years old Midfielder is consoled by his team-mates before match
Colombia 2-1 Ivory CoastThe Ivory Coast midfielder Serey Die said he broke down in tears over the emotion of representing his country at a World Cup.
A sombre Die said the emotion of the occasion had got to him. Read More...
TheatreReviewUstinov Studio, Bath
Inspired by the Jeffrey Dahmer case, Mad Men writer Keith Huff's look at two childhood friends turned Chicago cops is meticulously staged – even as it drowns in its own gritty poetryIt's the words that rain down ceaselessly in this two-hander by House of Cards and Mad Men writer Keith Huff. The play is best known for its 2009 incarnation on Broadway, with Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman as the two childhood friends turned 1990s Chicago cops who dreamed of being Starsky and Hutch but found themselves on the wrong side of the law – and each other. Read More...
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewBased on a Swedish series, this dire Channel 4 police drama boasts downright woeful acting – and a script that seems cobbled together via Google Translate
Channel 4’s new drama Before We Die is based on a Swedish series of the same name. It figures: viewing it felt exactly like watching something where all the important things had been lost in translation.
A pace that might perhaps have fostered a sense of dread in the original here tips over into simple slowness. Read More...