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Category: Literature

• Colonialism Comedy Culture Literature London Theatre

  A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre review ****

  A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter Bridge Theatre, 13th October 2018 OK then. All of you fans of densely-plotted, cerebral, potty-mouthed, fairy-tale, political, splatter, revenge, comedy fantasies. Your ship has come in. I have a strong feeling that Martin McDonagh’s new play at the Bridge will, in years to come,…

  October 23, 2018
• Culture Literature London Nigeria Theatre

  The Fishermen at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  The Fishermen Arcola Theatre, 20th September 2018 Good to see the Arcola downstairs space filled to bursting for Gbolahan Obiesesan’s adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s 2015 novel, a rapid transfer after a successful run in Edinburgh and then Manchester. Pretty clear that everyone in the audience was wowed by what they…

  October 2, 2018
• Colonialism Culture Literature London Philosophy Theatre

  The Outsider at the Print Room Coronet review ****

  The Outsider Print Room Coronet, 19th September 2018 Tricky one this. I can’t pretend I was pinned back in my seat by the two and a half hours of Ben Okri’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ absurd existentialist classic written in 1942. Abbey Wright’s careful direction injects a little humour, (a…

  October 1, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture History Literature London Opera Theatre

  Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House review ****

  Lessons in Love and Violence Royal Opera House, 26th May 2018 Here is an extract from an illuminated manuscript showing Eddy II getting a crown. Or more precisely a second crown. Not sure what that is all about but given he was by reputation a high maintenance sort of fella…

  June 6, 2018
• Culture History Literature London Theatre

  Describe the Night at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  Describe The Night Hampstead Theatre, 23rd May 2018 In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Describe the Night hasn’t gone down too well with the London critics. The SO and I think they might have missed a…

  May 31, 2018
• Culture History Literature London Theatre

  Life and Fate at the Theatre Royal Haymarket review ***

  Life and Fate Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 20th May 2018 The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg was founded in 1944 and is one of just three European theatre companies to have been awarded the title Theatre of Europe from the EU. (No I didn’t…

  May 28, 2018
• Contemporary Classical Culture Literature London Opera Theatre

  Coraline at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Coraline Barbican Theatre, 7th April 2018 Was I the only person in the audience who knew nothing about Neil Gaiman’s 2003 cult children’s fantasy novella from whence came Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Coraline? It certainly felt like it. To be fair the provenance had dawned on me some time before the…

  April 16, 2018
• Culture Literature London Theatre

  Great Apes at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  Great Apes Arcola Theatre, 31st March 2018 I sort of lost track with Will Self the author after The Book of Dave. His sprawling, satirical fantasies with a lot of big words, unreliable narratives and narrators, drugs, mental dislocation, is never short of imagination and ideas, but aren’t always that…

  April 10, 2018