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Category: Culture

• Culture London Shakespeare Theatre

  Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Measure for Measure Donmar Warehouse, 22nd November 2018 BOGOF. An inelegant retail term, Buy one get one free. Which is exactly what you get here. Two stripped-down, straight to the point versions of Will’s 1604 riff on justice, told as mirror images with gender reversal.  So much gender swapping in…

  December 10, 2018
• Community Culture Fiction London London Streets Musicals Novel Theatre

  White Teeth at the Kiln Theatre review ****

  White Teeth Kiln Theatre, 21st November 2018 I have never read Zadie Smith’s 2000 debut novel White Teeth. So I have no benchmark against which to set the adaptation by Stephen Sharkey, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, which is still showing at the Kiln. I gather it is something of a…

  December 5, 2018
• Comedy Culture London Theatre

  Pinter at Pinter 3 review ****

  Pinter at the Pinter Three Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th November 2018 Tess Landscape Apart From That Girls That’s All God’s District Monologue That’s Your Trouble Special Offer Trouble In The Works Night A Kind Of Alaska Just to be clear I am a fan of the work of Harold Pinter.…

  December 5, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London War

  Brodsky Quartet at Kings Place review *****

  Brodsky Quartet, In Time of War Kings Place, 18th November 2018 Karen Tanaka – At the grave of Beethoven Erwin Schulhoff – String Quartet No 1 Shostakovich – String Quartet No 8 Dave Brubeck – Regret George Crumb – Black Angels It’s been donkey’s years since I last saw the…

  December 3, 2018
• Culture History Renaissance Stratford upon Avon Theatre

  Tamburlaine at the RSC Swan Theatre review ****

  Tamburlaine Swan Theatre, RSC Stratford, 17th November 2018 If you scroll down you will see a so-called review of the play Switzerland. Though focussed on the author Patricia Highsmith it referenced her most famous character Tom Ripley. One of the most beguiling bad boys in fictional history. However he was…

  December 3, 2018
• Comedy Culture Italy London Politics Theatre

  Mistero Buffo at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  Mistero Buffo Arcola Theatre, 15th November 2018 This probably ranks as one of the Tourist’s least insightful assertions, (and trust me there is stiff and substantial competition), but, in his experience, there are two types of one person theatre. The pure monologue, often fairly static, relying on the appeal of…

  December 1, 2018
• Architecture art Culture Design Exhibition Literature London Love Photography Poetry Sexuality

  Modern Couples at the Barbican Art Gallery review ****

  Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde Barbican Art Gallery, 15th November 2018 Here’s another smart bit of curating from the team at the Barbican, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou-Metz here led by Jane Alison. Track the history of modernism in art – not just painting, but sculpture, photography,…

  November 30, 2018
• Culture London Shakespeare Theatre

  Macbeth at the Barbican Theatre review ***

  Macbeth Barbican Theatre, 15th November 2018 Is this a dagger I see before me … well maybe more of a kitchen knife … It is pretty tightly plotted (at least if you pare it down). It is quick by comparison to a lot of the Bard – half the length…

  November 30, 2018
• Colonialism Culture Film Georgian History Monarchy Nottingham Politics Theatre

  The Madness of George III at the Nottingham Playhouse review *****

  The Madness of George III Nottingham Playhouse, 13th November 2018 Flushed with success from his visit to Manchester the Tourist hopped on a train across the Peak District to the proud city of Sheffield, (where I see the Theatres will be staging a Rutherford and Sons next year ahead of…

  November 28, 2018
• Culture Manchester Theatre USA

  Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester review *****

  Death of  a Salesman Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 12th November 2018 The greatest English language play from the second half of the C20? Waiting for Godot? All That Fall? Or maybe Beckett’s Endgame? No, too tricky by half. A Streetcar Named Desire? It just about sneaks in time-wise but too…

  November 26, 2018