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Category: Georgian

• Culture Feminism Georgian History Justice London Patriarchy Suffolk Theatre

  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
• Baroque Contemporary Classical Culture Georgian Ireland London Opera

  The Intelligence Park at the Linbury Theatre review ***

  The Intelligence Park Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House, 2nd October 2019 I have no-one else to blame for this. Having now heard a smattering of his larger scale works thanks in large part to Thomas Ades’s advocacy in his Beethoven cycle with the Britten Sinfonia, having invested in a CD…

  November 13, 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
• Crime Culture Georgian London Morality Musicals Opera Politics Theatre

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) Lyric Hammersmith, 22nd May 2019 Never seen John Gay’s ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera, though have seen Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera, on which it is based, a couple of times. Have been waiting patiently for a production of Britten’s 1948…

  June 10, 2019
• Baroque Culture Film Georgian History Love Monarchy Politics Sexuality

  The Favourite film review *****

  The Favourite, 3rd January 2019 The more theatre I see, the more I am turning into an insufferably superior luvvie. “A play will always trump a film because it is organic, dynamic, viewed from multiple perspectives, energised by audience complicity, palpable, alive, more daring in terms of form and structure”…

  January 15, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Georgian London Oratorio

  Handel’s Messiah at the Barbican review ****

  Britten Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia Voices Handel’s Messiah, Barbican Hall, 19th December 2018 Jacqueline Shave (violin/director), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Allen Clayton (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) Christmas on the way. Full house at the Barbican. MSBD as wingman. Messiah. A quartet of outstanding soloists. The Britten Sinfonia Voices. The…

  January 3, 2019
• 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
• art Culture Georgian History Literature London Prints Theatre

  Hogarth’s Progress at the Rose Kingston review ***

  Hogarth’s Progress: The Art of Success and The Taste of the Town Rose Theatre Kingston, 21st October 2018 South West London was a popular place for the cultural, liberal, metropolitan elite in the first half of the C18. It still is. Hogarth, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Alexander Pope,…

  October 29, 2018