NADIA KAMIL / OH COMELY 30/04/201413/08/2019Jason Ward She called it the Whimsy Horn. If, at any point during Nadia Kamil’s debut stand-up show Wide Open Beavers! the proceedings were in
CLIO BARNARD (THE SELFISH GIANT) / OH COMELY 21/11/201323/06/2020Jason Ward “I was thinking recently about the nationalisation of electricity, and how I grew to love pylons,” says Clio Barnard. Her fondness for transmission
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER (THE ACT OF KILLING) / OH COMELY 21/11/201323/06/2020Jason Ward Anwar Congo is hanging his friend. Standing on his old killing floor, he pulls the wire tight around the man’s neck, trying to
KIER-LA JANISSE / OH COMELY 27/08/201316/09/2019Jason Ward Kier-La Janisse had a plan. A Medieval Studies PhD student living in Vancouver, she hoped to spend her life translating Latin texts. Then
CARIAD LLOYD / OH COMELY 19/06/201319/09/2019Jason Ward Andrew is seven years old and looks suspiciously like a grown woman. An aspiring stand-up comedian, he is eager to talk about history—if
SERAFINA STEER / OH COMELY 09/04/201319/09/2019Jason Ward For the daytime drunks of East London, a visit to St Leonard’s Church’s drop-in centre in early 2012 was an opportunity to court
MARTIN MCDONAGH (SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS) / OH COMELY 04/12/201219/09/2019Jason Ward “He enjoys a well-crafted shoot-out.” Martin McDonagh is talking about the main character of Seven Psychopaths, his latest film. “He thinks… No, wait,
ROY WILLIAMS / OH COMELY 23/07/201219/09/2019Jason Ward Roy Williams sits at his kitchen table, quietly ferocious. In front of him lies a neat black notebook which he is filling up
CRISPIAN MILLS (A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING) / OH COMELY 23/07/201219/09/2019Jason Ward Crispian Mills has been alright for a while. “I’ve been alright for a while,” he says, “I’m not fighting against myself.” Polite and
DAVID GYASI (CLOUD ATLAS) / OH COMELY 30/04/201219/09/2019Jason Ward David Gyasi fell in love with acting during his first school play. “I was a landlord in Gypsy. This dude had maybe three
