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Category: London

• Culture London Theatre

  Edward II at Greenwich Theatre review ****

  Edward II Greenwich Theatre, 24th January 2018 Right then, This is what theatre is all about. Take a cast-iron classic history play from Jacobean bad-boy Kit Marlowe, hack out thematic repetition, wordiness and some characters, pare back set, costumes, sound and lighting, and let a young, hungry cast do its…

  February 3, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Early Music London Renaissance

  Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia Wigmore Hall, 24th January 2018 Heinrich Biber – Mystery Sonata No 1 “The Annunciation” Philip Glass – Orbit Leo Chadburn – Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe Arvo Part – Spiegel am Spiegel WA Mozart – Piano Trio No 3 K502 There is something of the spirit of punk…

  January 30, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Colin Currie Group at Kings Place review ****

  Colin Currie Group Kings Place, 20th January 2018 Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood New York Counterpoint Mallet Quartet Drumming Part 1 Vermont Counterpoint Quartet (2013) So off to Kings Place for another immersion into the sound world of Steve Reich guided by his finest living advocates (probably), the…

  January 29, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  The War Has Not Yet Started at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

  The War Has Not Yet Started Southwark Playhouse, 18th January 2018 I don’t really read that much anymore. Which means I take a rather circuitous route to the acquisition of knowledge and satisfaction of curiosity. The page has been replaced by the stage, the museum and gallery, visits, music and…

  January 21, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Antony and Cleopatra at the Barbican Theatre review ***

  Antony and Cleopatra Barbican Theatre, 18th January 2018 The last instalment, for me, of the Rome season at the Barbican, and so late in the run that it has been and gone. Sorry. Anyway I have to say this was my least favourite of the four productions, though there was…

  January 21, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  My Mum’s a Twat at the Royal Court Theatre review ***

  My Mum’s A Twat Royal Court Theatre, 16th January 2018 I am a fat bloke with a dodgy heart and a sore back in his 50s. So I should not be swanning around London without a care in the world hoovering up culture to make up for lost time. I…

  January 21, 2018
• Culture Film London

  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri film review *****

  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, 16th January 2018 Best film of 2018. Settle down Tourist. We are only three weeks in. Well I am confident that nothing will come along to match this so I stand by my sensationalist claim. You see I spent all of 2016 waiting for a…

  January 20, 2018
• Culture London Theatre TV

  The Twilight Zone at the Almeida Theatre review ***

  The Twilight Zone Almeida Theatre, 13th January 2018 Based on my entirely objective reviews, (of which more to follow when I get round to it), I see that the Almeida has, over the last three years or so, consistently offered the best theatrical experience in London. No great surprise really…

  January 20, 2018
• Classical Music Concert London

  Twentieth Century Masters: LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Isabelle Faust Barbican Hall, 14th January 2018 Janacek – Overture: From the House of the Dead Elliott Carter – Instances Berg – Violin Concerto Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra Back to the Barbican for another round with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, though this…

  January 19, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Julius Caesar Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 11th January 2018 The third instalment, (for me), of the RSC “Rome” season at the Barbican which originally aired at Stratford. And, as is so often the case with this idiotic blog, it is about to end and is sold out anyway. Et…

  January 17, 2018