At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: London

• 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
• Colonialism Culture London Magic Romance Shakespeare Theatre

  The Tempest at Greenwich Theatre review ****

  The Tempest Greenwich Theatre, 16th February 2019 As my dear old mum would say “sometimes Michael you would forget your head if it wasn’t screwed on”. Not for the first time the Tourist managed to leave the programme for this performance by Lazarus Theatre Company of The Tempest in a…

  March 8, 2019
• Ancient History Architecture art Culture Empire Exhibition History London Power War

  I Am Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum review ****

  I Am Ashurbanipal King of the World, King of Assyria  British Museum, 15th February 2019 Crikey. Those Assyrians had a way with reliefs carved in gypsum/alabaster. Even if it was primarily all in the service of terrifying aggrandisement. The King hunting, the King and his soldiers slaying his enemies, the…

  March 7, 2019
• Capitalism Culture Economics History London Musicals Theatre USA

  The American Clock at the Old Vic review ***

  The American Clock Old Vic Theatre, 11th February 2019 All the reviews will tell you the same thing. This was not one of Arthur Miller’s finest moments. Mind you his finest moments are amongst the greatest in theatrical history so the bar is set pretty high. A series of vignettes,…

  March 5, 2019
• Business Capitalism Culture Economics Environment London Russia Theatre

  Wild East at the Young Vic review ***

  Wild East Young Vic Theatre, 13th February 2019 So after an hour spent in the florid company of an unraveling traveller couple courtesy of Cuzco at Theatre 503, followed by a hour lapping up the detail of natural and man-made beauty through the eyes of John Ruskin (The Power of…

  March 3, 2019