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Category: London

• Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture Hungary London

  Ligeti Immersion Day at the Barbican review ****

  Ligeti Immersion Day, Guildhall Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Sofi Jeaninn (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), Nicolas Hodges (piano) Milton Court Concert Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican Hall, 2nd March 2019 Not obligatory to illustrate the world of Gyorgy Ligeti with a “universe” picture. But given the…

  March 21, 2019
• Comedy Community Culture Film Ireland London Theatre

  Stones in His Pockets at the Rose Kingston review ***

  Stones in His Pockets Rose Theatre Kingston, 1st March 2019 Like Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, and written at the same time, Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets is a comedy which examines the impact when a Hollywood film crew descends on a small Irish community. But where one…

  March 21, 2019
• Culture London Relationship Theatre

  Cost of Living at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  Cost of Living Hampstead Theatre, 27th February 2019 I can’t remember the last time I attended a performance at the Hampstead Theatre Upstairs or Downstairs that wasn’t, to all intents and purposes, full. Matinee or evening. Not a great surprise given the theatre’s reputation and location but still a testament…

  March 18, 2019
• Culture Friendship London Love Relationship Theatre

  Bodies at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

  Bodies Southwark Playhouse, 26th February 2019 Two’s Company is a theatre company which set out to explore plays written at the time of the Great War but has subsequently gone on to stage the English premiere of Hemingway’s only play and some Pinter productions. Here it has revived one of…

  March 16, 2019
• Culture Fiction Literature London Novel Theatre

  Alys, Always at the Bridge Theatre review ****

  Alys, Always Bridge Theatre, 25th February 2019 Said it before and I’ll say it again. You have to be careful with adaptations of novels and/or films on stage. There may be enough in character and plot to justify the transfer but there may not always, (no pun intended), be enough…

  March 16, 2019
• Amsterdam Baroque Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Renaissance

  Lucie Horsch and the AAM at Milton Court review *****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (harpsichord, director), Lucie Horsch (recorder)  Milton Court Concert Hall, 24th February 2019 Antonio Vivaldi – Flautino Concerto in C major, RV443 (arr in G major for recorder) JS Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in D major BW V1054 Giuseppe Sammartini – Recorder Concerto…

  March 15, 2019
• Animation Classics Comedy Culture London Love Performance Poetry Theatre War

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Vaults Festival review *****

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pants on Fire, Vaults Festival, 23rd February Seven years in to the Vaults Festival and finally the Tourist takes the plunge. If there is a cutting edge to avoid you can be sure the Tourist finds it. It is not even as if the Waterloo location is inconvenient.…

  March 13, 2019
• Animation Culture Design London Resistance Theatre

  The Animals and Children Took to the Streets at Lyric Hammersmith review ****

  The Animals and Children Took to the Streets Lyric Hammersmith, 23rd February 2019 This took my eye in large part because of the description of its form in the Lyric blurb and in the many reviews that have followed its progress around the world since 2010 following a commission by…

  March 11, 2019
• Baroque Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Suite Symphony

  Philippe Herreweghe and Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor),Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 21st February 2019 JS Bach – Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Mozart – Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 Mozart – Symphony No.41 (Jupiter)  A rare opportunity to hear modern instruments tackle some core Baroque and Classical orchestral repertoire in an HIP style,…

  March 11, 2019
• Culture Denmark Family Feminism London Love Naturalism Norway Relationship Theatre

  The Lady From The Sea at the Print Room Coronet review ****

  The Lady From The Sea Print Room Coronet, 20th February 2019 Hummed and hawed about this one. Never been entirely sure about TLFTS when compared to other Ibsen’s, was not bowled over by it’s last London outing at the Donmar, couldn’t get the cheap Wednesday seat option (that is a…

  March 11, 2019