Category: London
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The Suppliant Women at the Young Vic review ****
The Suppliant Women Young Vic, 21st November 2017 Before I get started let us just remind ourselves what a marvellous place the Young Vic is. I don’t just mean the quality and quantity of its productions, though heaven knows under the artistic stewardship of David Lan, this has risen to…
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The Firm at the Hampstead Theatre review *****
The Firm Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 22nd November 2017 N.B. The Firm is returning to the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs for another run between the 3rd May and 8th June 2019. The Tourist goes to a lot of theatre in London and, trust him, there is no better value than a preview…
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Rules For Living review at the Rose Theatre Kingston ***
Rules For Living Rose Theatre Kingston, 13th November 2017 The Tourist loves the Rose Theatre. Admittedly it helps that it is just a hop, skip and a jump, (well brisk walk), away from him. It does serve up some interesting theatre though, in amongst the music and comedy, and it…
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps at St John’s Smith Square review *****
Alban Gerhardt cello, James Ehnes violin, Jean Johnson clarinet, Steven Osborne piano St John’s Smith Square, 14th November Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67, Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps I don’t suppose Olivier Messiaen had any idea, when he composed his chamber…
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Labour of Love at the Noel Coward Theatre review *****
Labour of Love Noel Coward Theatre, 15th November 2017 The Tourist is wracked with guilt. A couple of lovely women who were sat next to him asked his opinion at the interval as to whether James Graham’s Ink or Labour of Love was the better play. He said Ink. By…
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Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition at the V&A review ****
Opera: Passion, Power and Politics V&A, 13th November 2017 You can’t seem to navigate on t’Internet, (all right, the bit that isn’t hate, porn or celebrity, which doesn’t leave much), for confessionals from opera lovers telling you how they came to love the “queen”, or is it “king”, of art…
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Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy review ***
Jasper Johns “Something Resembling Truth” Royal Academy of Arts. 10th November 2017 So here’s my theory. Sometime in the mid 1970s the real Jasper Johns was kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a cloned doppelganger. All the AI software was packed in but they forgot to prevent him from clicking…
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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle at Wyndham’s Theatre review ****
Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle Wyndham’s Theatre, 9th November 2017 Everyone’s at it. The “science” play. Science, whether directly through using theory to inform plot, or indirectly, often through the impact of ecological or other catastrophe, has underpinned many of the best new plays I have seen in the last couple…
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