Category: History
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Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre review **
Botticelli in the Fire Hampstead Theatre, 20th November 2019 Us pensioners, well nearly in the case of the Tourist, as well as the real-dealers who haunt the matinees at which he largely frequents, are getting our eyes opened in Roxana Silbert’s first season as AD at the HT. Nothing fusty…
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Our Lady of Kibeho at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review *****
Our Lady of Kibeho Theatre Royal Stratford East, 31st October 2019 Old Billers, now set to enjoy retirement as he steps down from his job as chief critic at the Guardian, knows a thing or two about theatre. So, when he identified, with his colleagues, OLOK as one of the…
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The Permanent Way at The Vaults review *****
The Permanent Way The Vaults, 13th October 2019 I have to hand it Debbie Hicks and Alexander Lass, producer and director of The Permanent Way. Whilst David Hare’s 2003 verbatim dissection of the Tory rail privatisation in the 1990s, and the four fatal disasters which followed, is an undeniably powerful…
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The Last King of Scotland at the Sheffield Crucible review *****
The Last King of Scotland Crucible Sheffield, 28th September 2019 The Tourist generally agrees with all those smart people paid to review theatrical productions. That is a) because they now what they are doing, they are experts with experience and should be listened to, rather than some halfwit with his/her…
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The King of Hell’s Palace at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
The King of Hell’s Palace Hampstead Theatre, 17th September 2019 This was an interesting choice as the first production in Roxana Silbert’s inaugural season at the Hampstead Theatre. A play based on a true story about corruption scandal in China. From a US playwright, (who spent part of her childhood…
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The Secret River at the National Theatre review ****
The Secret River National Theatre Olivier, 29th August 2019 This must have been tough. Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River is an epic production, in terms of the story it tells and the way it tells it, involving numerous creatives and a large cast, over 40 people in…
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Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****
Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…
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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…
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