Few 72-year-olds 'trot onto stage with a black plastic bag over their heads' as did Yoko Ono, performing in Patti Smith's Meltdown festival on Friday. Ian Gittins reviews the 'national treasure' and what was a 'reliably perplexing evening'. Also in today's reviews, the much tipped M.I.A. makes her debut UK headliner at Fabric. "If critical hosannas translated into record sales, then M.I.A. would be Britain's answer to Missy Elliot... but by the same token, Athlete would be busking on the tube. Life's unfair like that," writes Dorian Lynskey.
Lyn Gardner reviews a 'half done' Winter's Tale at the Globe, and Michael Billington writes about Scenes from a Separation, currently playing at the Orange Tree, Richmond.
Also on the site today, Brian Logan boards Britain's first theatre boat; and the duo who invented punk, gangsta rap, taught the world to play snooker, and supported the Libertines talk about their forthcoming Glastonbury appearance. Can you guess who it is yet?
