Category: London
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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…
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Spira Mirabilis at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****
Spira Mirabilis Queen Elizabeth Hall, 15th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 Spira Mirabilis is a group of talented young musicians from around the world who play in various European orchestras. They hole up in Formigine in Northern Italy near Bologna to learn from each…
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An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****
An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…
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The Gronholm Method at the Menier Chocolate Factory review ****
The Gronholm Method Menier Chocolate Factory, 12th May 2018 Curious place the Menier Chocolate Factory. Properly fringe in looks and feel. But programming which is more Bournemouth than Borough. Still it knows its audience and seems to pack ’em in, even with prices that seem a little more confident than…
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DNA and The Fall: National Youth Theatre at the Southwark Playhouse review *****
DNA, The Fall – National Youth Theatre Southwark Playhouse, 11th May and 14th May 2018 Let’s imagine you want to go to the theatre. To see a proper play. Let’s take the revival of Red for example at the Wyndham’s. 90 minutes straight through so not too taxing. Big name…
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The Writer at the Almeida Theatre review *****
The Writer Almeida Theatre, 9th May 2018 The Writer is …. an absolutely staggering piece of …. writing. No other way to say it. I’d wager there were a few punters in the audience that disagree with me but I think Ella Hickson, along with director Blanche McIntyre and the…
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Icebreaker at Kings Place review ****
Icebreaker: Velocity Kings Place, 5th May 2018 Anna Meredith – Nautilus Michael Gordon – Yo Shakespeare Paul Whitty – nature is a language – can’t you read? David Lang – Slow Movement Louis Andriessen – De snelheid (‘Velocity’) Boundaries. And their close, and troublesome cousins, borders. The bane of human…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 