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Category: London

• Culture London Theatre USA

  Detroit at the Guildhall School review ****

  Detroit Guildhall School, Milton Court Theatre, 5th February 2019 The Tourist has remarked before on the benefits of checking out the productions staged at Britain’s major theatre schools. Excellent actors and creatives destined to to go on to greater things, usually professional directors, interesting repertoire, often first revivals of recent…

  February 20, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture Hungary London Photography

  Hungariana: Casals Quartet and Tamara Stefanovich at Milton Court review ****

  Casals Quartet, Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Gerald McBurney (creative director), Amelia Kosminsky (video designer) Hungaria, Milton Court Concert Hall, and 3rd February 2019 Gyorgy Kurtag Six moments musicaux Op 44 Jatekok excerpts Bela Bartok 14 Bagatelles Op 6 String Quartet No 3 Three Burlesques Op 8c Gyorgy Ligeti Etudes excerpts Musica…

  February 19, 2019
• Culture Denmark History London Religion Resistance Theatre War

  Rosenbaum’s Rescue at the Park Theatre review ***

  Rosenbaum’s Rescue Park Theatre 200, 29th January 2018 Not quite sure why this didn’t entirely work for me. Alexander Bodin Sophir takes an intriguing story, the escape of 7500 Jews by boat from Copenhagen to Sweden in 1943 just before the Nazis were about to round them up, and puts…

  February 17, 2019
• Culture Family London Memory Theatre

  Pinter at Pinter 5 review ***

  Pinter at Pinter Five: The Room/Victoria Station/Family Voices Harold Pinter Theatre, 26th January 2019 The weakest of the Pinter at Pinter season IMHO though still well worth seeing. Not the fault of the cast with Rupert Graves in particular on top form. Maybe the plays; The Room is Pinter’s first…

  February 17, 2019
• Capitalism Community Culture Economics Industry London Politics Theatre USA

  Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Sweat Donmar Warehouse, 24th January 2019 Who is the greatest living playwright (in the English language). Caryl Churchill. Obviously. Who is, in the opinion of the Tourist, probably the most talented playwright under 40 in Britain today. Ella Hickson. What was the best original play the Tourist saw last year.…

  February 15, 2019
• Culture London Theatre

  The best theatre coming up in London

  It’s been a little while since the Tourist set out his favourite theatre opportunities either on now (in the case of Nine Night), or coming up over the year in London. Nothing too obscure or fringe-y here. Tried and trusted in terms of writer, director, cast and/or venue. The first…

  February 14, 2019
• Culture London Theatre War

  The Unreturning at Theatre Royal Stratford East review *****

  The Unreturning Theatre Royal Stratford East, 24th January 2019 Denizens of Leicester, Swansea and Oxford. Consider yourself lucky. There is still time for you to catch the tour of Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning which has already travelled to Plymouth, (the Theatre Royal who cannily commissioned it), Southampton, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham…

  February 12, 2019
• Culture London Politics Theatre

  I’m Not Running at the National Theatre review ***

  I’m Not Running National Theatre Lyttleton, 22nd January 2019 If you have a moment one day take a look at the writing credits of David Hare, both for stage and screen. There are a lot, including some of the finest dramas written in the English language over the past four…

  February 12, 2019
• Biography Comedy Culture Film Friendship London

  Stan and Ollie film review ****

  Stan and Ollie, 22nd January 2019 For the avoidance of doubt the two fellas above are not Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, the stars of film Stan and Ollie, nor indeed are they yer actual Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. No this, obviously is a statue of the comedy…

  February 7, 2019
• Culture Education Family London Power Theatre

  The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre review ***

  The Cane Royal Court Theatre, 21st January 2019 Somehow, until now, the Tourist has failed to see any of the work of Mark Ravenhill, either as writer, performer or director, or even his columns in the Guardian, surprising given the Tourist’s status as a paid up Guardianista. There was a…

  February 6, 2019