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Category: Classics

• Amsterdam Classics Culture Family Feminism Gender Greece London Theatre

  Medea at the Barbican Theatre review *****

  Medea International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican Theatre, 6th March 2019 Now you can’t always be sure that wunderkind director Ivo van Hove delivers the goods when he comes to the UK, which is now surprisingly often with All About Eve his latest offering. When it comes to the company where he…

  March 26, 2019
• Classics Comedy Culture Greece London Magic Myths Theatre

  Unmythable at the Vault Festival review ****

  Unmythable, Out of Chaos Vault Festival, 3rd March 2019 There was all sorts of cutting edge theatre, comedy and performance on at the Vault Festival this year, but being the old fart that he is the Tourist largely plumped for the safe options of comic takes on Greek myths. Satisfying…

  March 21, 2019
• Animation Classics Comedy Culture London Love Performance Poetry Theatre War

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Vaults Festival review *****

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pants on Fire, Vaults Festival, 23rd February Seven years in to the Vaults Festival and finally the Tourist takes the plunge. If there is a cutting edge to avoid you can be sure the Tourist finds it. It is not even as if the Waterloo location is inconvenient.…

  March 13, 2019
• Classics Culture Egypt History London Rome Shakespeare Theatre

  Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre review ****

  Antony and Cleopatra National Theatre Olivier, 11th December 2018 Simon Godwin is a director who has shown he has a bit of a way with the sprawling masterpieces in the dramatic canon in recent years. Especially from the Bard. His recently opened Timon of Athens at the RSC, albeit with…

  December 30, 2018
• art Classics Culture Exhibition Italy London Religion Renaissance

  Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery review *****

  Mantegna and Bellini National Gallery, 11th November 2018 11th November was turning into a very busy day for the Tourist. Fresh from the heady Edward Burne-Jones phantasmagoria at Tate Britain and a proper Sunday lunch, it was off to the National, now solo, for these Old Masters, before rounding off…

  November 25, 2018
• Classics Culture History London Philosophy Politics Religion Renaissance Romanticism Spain Theatre

  Don Carlos at the Rose Kingston review ****

  Don Carlos Rose Theatre Kingston, 9th November 2018 No one could accuse Friedrich Schiller of holding back in Don Carlos. Goethe inspired Sturm und Drang Romanticism, a Kantian paean to the centrality of personal freedom and democracy, the clash of liberty and tyranny, a stab at the sublime, a (loose)…

  November 23, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Classics Culture Early Music London Opera Renaissance

  English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire review ****

  English Touring Opera Hackney Empire, 12th October 2018 Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Carissimi – Jonas Gesualdo – I Will Not Speak I am partial to English Touring Opera’s productions. The repertoire tends to be up my street, with a bias to smaller, chamber and Baroque works, reflecting resources and…

  October 22, 2018
• Classics Community Culture London Theatre

  Pericles at the National Theatre review *****

  Pericles National Theatre Olivier, 26th August 2018 So how do you like your theatre? Or more particularly how do your like your Shakespeare? Utterly faithful to the First Folio? Set in the time and place that big Will intended (however baffling)? All blokes in tights? Performed by elite, public school…

  September 2, 2018
• Classics Culture London Politics Theatre

  Imperium at the Gielgud Theatre review ****

  Imperium I Conspirator and Imperium II Dictator Gielgud Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, 18th July and 25th August 2018 I don’t read much. Don’t have the patience or the imagination. Much easier to get my kicks from the theatre, or from film, where other people can do all the hard work.…

  August 31, 2018
• Amsterdam Classics Culture Theatre TV

  Oedipus at Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg review ****

  Oedipus Tonneelgroep Amsterdam, Stadsschouwburg, 17th May 2018 The Tourist sets off to Amsterdam to see the new version of Oedipus from the mighty Toneelgroep Amsterdam. As well as his first visit to the Concertgebouw and a chance to reacquaint himself with one Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The Tourist finally blogs…

  May 26, 2018