Sophie Cundale review – boxing meets Blackadder in a maggoty mash-up

South London Gallery
A modern pugilist encounters a depressed 16th-century queen in a hallucinatory, blood-soaked half-hour film The Near RoomPlague at the gates, a mad queen, a defeated boxer’s concussed hallucination and enough craziness, gushing blood and seething hatred for a Jacobean tragedy. Artist Sophie Cundale packs more into a half-hour film than seems possible, let alone advisable. The Near Room, which takes its title from the mental space Muhammad Ali said he entered during his