Category: Literature
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Don Quixote at the Garrick Theatre review ****
Don Quixote Garrick Theatre, 2nd January 2019 Finally the Tourist gets to see this. Took a chance that it would, after the mostly strong reviews, eventually find a home in London, and waited for the run to settle in to secure a fairly priced ticket. If you are of a…
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library review *****
Anglo-Saxon Kingsdoms: Art, Word, War British Library, 30th December 2018 I mean it isn’t all books. There are charters and letters as well. And pottery, coins, art and jewels. But there are a lot of books. Oh my word though, what beautiful books. If you are at all interested in…
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The Swingling Sixties: the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review *****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, The Swingles, London Philharmonic Choir Royal Festival Hall, 8th December 2018 Elizabeth Atherton – soprano Maria Ostroukhova – mezzo-soprano Sam Furness – tenor Joel Williams – tenor Theodore Platt – baritone Joshua Bloom – bass Stravinsky – Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) Stravinsky – Threni…
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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…
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Switzerland at the Ambassadors Theatre review **
Switzerland Ambassador’s Theatre, 16th November 2018 A couple of weeks prior to Switzerland the Tourist took in another play by Joanna Murray-Smith, Honour, at the Park Theatre. A very fine cast and a sharp enough dissection of a marriage broken by the cliche of the husband leaving for a younger…
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Honour at the Park Theatre review ***
Honour Park Theatre 200, 1st October 2018 Never, ever, marry a writer. That’s the main lesson I learnt from Honour. Jessica Murray-Smith’s 2003 play, much revived, which premiered at the NT with Ellen Atkins and Corin Redgrave, tracks the break up of a 32 year marriage when literary heavyweight George…
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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,…
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The Habit of Art at Richmond Theatre review *****
The Habit of Art Richmond Theatre, 19th October 2018 There are a handful of plays that I regret not seeing when they first appeared. Not those I wish I had seen, That would be a very long list and cover those periods where I was not putting the required viewing…
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