At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Culture

• Classics Culture London Religion Sexuality Theatre

  Equus at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review *****

  Equus Theatre Royal Stratford East, 7th March 2019 Never seen Peter Shaffer’s Equus on stage before. Seen the film version which is a bit dry IMHO. So I was very happy to see that TRSE, in conjunction with the most excellent English Touring Theatre, were taking it on, joining the…

  March 28, 2019
• 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
• Culture Identity Ireland London Politics Religion Theatre

  Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court Theatre review ****

  Cyprus Avenue Royal Court Theatre, 4th March 2019 From one black comedy which imagines taboo breaking violence to make a political point (here big as well as small “p”) to another. Having seen the Ladykiller from The Thelmas at the Vault Festival it was off next evening with the SO,…

  March 26, 2019
• Comedy Culture Gender London Theatre

  Ladykiller at the Vault Festival review ****

  Ladykiller, The Thelmas Vault Festival, 3rd March 2019 Blimey. The Thelmas, director and founder Madelaine Moore and writer Guleraana Mir, together with the writer here, Madeline Gould, aren’t pulling any punches here. The company is “dedicated to the development and promotion of early career female writers and theatre makers”. They…

  March 25, 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
• Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture Hungary London

  Ligeti Immersion Day at the Barbican review ****

  Ligeti Immersion Day, Guildhall Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Sofi Jeaninn (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), Nicolas Hodges (piano) Milton Court Concert Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican Hall, 2nd March 2019 Not obligatory to illustrate the world of Gyorgy Ligeti with a “universe” picture. But given the…

  March 21, 2019
• Comedy Community Culture Film Ireland London Theatre

  Stones in His Pockets at the Rose Kingston review ***

  Stones in His Pockets Rose Theatre Kingston, 1st March 2019 Like Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, and written at the same time, Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets is a comedy which examines the impact when a Hollywood film crew descends on a small Irish community. But where one…

  March 21, 2019
• Culture Ireland Manchester Theatre

  A Skull in Connemara at the Oldham Coliseum review ****

  A Skull in Connemara Oldham Coliseum, 28th February 2019 Two successive nights. Two revivals of comedies looking at the nature of “Irishness”. Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara and Marie Jones Stones in His Pockets. Which did the Tourist prefer? McDonagh’s black comedy of course. Bit trickier to get to,…

  March 20, 2019
• Capitalism Culture Economics Manchester Power Theatre War

  Mother Courage and her Children at the Royal Exchange Manchester review ****

  Mother Courage and her Children Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 28th February 2019 Brecht. Royal Exchange. Headlong (This House, People, Places and Things, Labour of Love, Common, Junkyard, 1984, The Glass Menagerie, American Psycho and Enron – and that’s just what I can vouchsafe), Anna Jordan adapting, Amy Hodge, the Associate…

  March 19, 2019
• Culture London Relationship Theatre

  Cost of Living at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  Cost of Living Hampstead Theatre, 27th February 2019 I can’t remember the last time I attended a performance at the Hampstead Theatre Upstairs or Downstairs that wasn’t, to all intents and purposes, full. Matinee or evening. Not a great surprise given the theatre’s reputation and location but still a testament…

  March 18, 2019