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Category: Culture

• Baroque Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Italy London Sonata

  Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque: Vivaldi at the Wigmore Hall review *****

  Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord), Daniele Caminiti (lute) Wigmore Hall, 1st July 2019 Antonio Vivaldi Sonata a4 al Santo Sepolcro RV130 Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93 Concerto in D Op 3, No 9…

  August 24, 2019
• Acting Biography Colourism Culture Georgian History Identity London Race Theatre

  Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  Paterson Joseph – Sancho: An Act of Remembrance Orange Tree Theatre, 30th June 2019 OK. So let me get this out of the way at the beginning. Paterson Joseph’s one man homage to Charles Ignatius Sancho, the first Black Briton to vote, sometimes comes across as just a little too…

  August 23, 2019
• Culture Empire History Institution Mental Illness Nationhood Politics Theatre War

  Plenty at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ****

  Plenty Chichester Festival Theatre, 27th June 2019 Sir David Hare has written a fair few plays. Important plays. As well as TV screenplays and film scripts. I’ve only seen a handful but it’s not difficult to work out why the old boy is so important. Even if some would suggest…

  August 23, 2019
• Acting Culture London Nationhood Theatre USA

  Radio at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  Radio Arcola Theatre, 25th June 2019 Never easy to work out what to sign up for at the Arcola Theatre since so much of quality and interest passes through the doors. So the Tourist has adopted a somewhat whimsical approach and given up worrying too much if he misses the…

  August 17, 2019
• Acting Culture Fascism Film France Germany History Ideology Industry London Politics Power Theatre

  Les Damnes: Comedie-Francaise at the Barbican Theatre review *****

  Les Damnes (The Dammed) Comedie-Francaise, Barbican Theatre, 21st June The Tourist is now so far off the pace in terms of commenting om his cultural adventures that there must surely be a strong case for giving up. Hurrah I hear you cry. Well I am afraid any joy you feel…

  August 12, 2019
• Amsterdam Culture Netherlands Russia Theatre

  The Cherry Orchard at the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam review *****

  The Cherry Orchard (De Kersentuin) Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Staddschouwburg Rabozaal, 20th June 2019 One of the world’s greatest theatre makers in Simon McBurney directing. Actors from probably the world’s greatest theatre company in the form of the ITA (previously Toneelgroep). An adaptation from Robert Icke no less with his Dutch…

  August 10, 2019
• Amsterdam Animation art Culture Exhibition History Ideology Installation Politics South Africa Soviet Union Technology

  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019
• Amsterdam Architecture Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Czech Suite Symphony

  Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin)  Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, 19th June 2019 Detlev Glanert – Weites Land Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 Bedrich Smetana – Vysehrad, De Moldau and Sárka from Má vlast  There’s a clue in the title. The Tourist finds himself…

  August 1, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Germany London

  Collegium Vocale Gent at the Barbican review *****

  Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hanna Blazikova (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass) Barbican Hall, 14th June 2019 It’s Bach. It’s the B Minor Mass. So of course it is beautiful. But it can be a bit, well, “bitty”. After all the…

  August 1, 2019
• Church Culture Film Religion Rome Theatre

  The Pope at the Royal and Derngate review ****

  The Pope Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, 13th June 2019 I suspect Kiwi Anthony McCarten has trousered a few quid in the last fewyears. What with writing the screenplay for The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour and Bohemian Rhapsody. But he has returned to his roots with this play, The…

  July 28, 2019