At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Culture

• Comedy Culture London Memory Theatre

  Pinter at the Pinter 4 review ****

  Pinter at the Pinter Four: Moonlight and Night School Harold Pinter Theatre, 6th December 2018 The Tourist is a bit off the pace what with that the holiday celebrations to enjoy/get through (delete as appropriate). Still three more of the Pinter one act plays season to look forward too as…

  December 27, 2018
• Albums Baroque Church Classical Music Concert Culture Early Music Italy London

  English Chamber Orchestra: Vivaldi at Cadogan Hall review ****

  English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of the C21 Cadogan Hall, 2nd December 2018 Raphaela Papadakis (soprano), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Caroline Dale (cello), Harry Winstanley (flute), Michael Collins (conductor) Antonio Vivaldi Gloria in D RV 589 Concerto for Violin in F minor, ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons, Op 8…

  December 24, 2018
• Business Culture London Theatre

  Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Dealing With Clair Orange Tree Theatre, 30th November 2019 The Orange Tree, along with the Royal Court, must presumably be one of Martin Crimp’s favourite theatres. Whilst he has primarily been engaged with writing libretti for George Benjamin’s excellent trio of operas in recent years, Into the Little Hill, Written…

  December 24, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Minimalism

  Glass and Reich: LSO at the Barbican review ***

  Divine Geometry: London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, Simone Dinnerstein (piano) Barbican Hall, 29th November 2018 Charles Coleman – Drenched Charles Coleman – Bach Inspired Philip Glass – Piano Concerto No 3 Kristjan Jarvi – Too Hot to Handel Steve Reich – Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Funny one this. As…

  December 23, 2018
• Culture Feminism London Love Musicals Sexuality Theatre

  Company at the Gielgud theatre review ****

  Company Gielgud Theatre, 29th November 2018 Regular readers will know that the Tourist doesn’t like musicals. However, with Company now ranking alongside Follies, Caroline, Or Change, Groundhog Day, Gypsy, Girl From the North Country, Junkyard and White Teeth, the list of exceptions to the rule is growing alarmingly long. Looks…

  December 21, 2018
• Culture Literature Mortality Theatre

  Love Lies Bleeding at the Print Room Coronet review **

  Love Lies Bleeding Print Room Coronet, 28th November 2018 You probably now Don DeLillo as the US author of provocative, existential contemporary fiction such as White Noise, Libra and Underworld. Well he also writes plays. Five of them to date apparently. IMHO he shouldn’t. They have been compared to Beckett…

  December 20, 2018
• Culture London Love Naturalism Norway Theatre Truth

  The Wild Duck at the Almeida Theatre review *****

  The Wild Duck Almeida Theatre, 28th November 2018 He’s only gone and done it again. Director Robert Icke has taken Ibsen’s perhaps most circumspect, but probably greatest, masterpiece, from 1884, and adapted it to make it shine anew and say something profound about our world today. There may be a…

  December 20, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Stories at the National Theatre review ***

  Stories National Theatre Dorfman, 27th November 2018 Nina Raine has a knack for dramatising contemporary social issues from multiple perspectives and a gift for sharp comedy observation. At least based on her last work Consent as I have not seen her other acclaimed works Tribes and Rabbit. However here I…

  December 19, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Poetry War

  War Requiem at the ENO review ****

  War Requiem English National Opera, London Coliseum, 22nd November 2018 Please probably inevitable that the Tourist, armed with the freedom (and fortunately the budget) to gad about town, his love of Benjamin Britten’s music and his wish to continue to honour those who die in pointless wars was going to…

  December 16, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Early Music London Love Renaissance Time

  Time Stands Still: Aurora Orchestra at Kings Place review ****

  Aurora Principal Players, Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Sally Pryce (harp), John Reid (piano), Nico Muhly Kings Place, 23rd November 2018 Satie – Gymnopédie No. 3 Thomas Adès – The Lover in Winter Nico Muhly – Clear Music Debussy – Danse Sacrée et Danse profane Brahms – Gestillte Sehnsucht Nico Muhly –…

  December 12, 2018