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Category: London

  • Madame Rubinstein at the Park Theatre review ****

    Madame Rubinstein Park Theatre, 4th May 2017 Jez Bond and his team at the Park Theatre (with the help and goodwill of assorted North London luvvies I think) are doing an ever more successful job in my view in staging new plays and productions that people want, or should want,…

  • David Hockney at Tate Britain review ****

    David Hockney Tate Britain, 2nd May 2017 OK so this is embarrassing so I will get it out of the way. I didn’t really know David Hockey’s works beyond a cursory glance at a handful of works in permanent collections and some mixed exhibitions and didn’t really know what all…

  • Steve Reich’s Drumming and Tehillim at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

    The Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals Royal Festival Hall, 5th May 2017 Steve Reich – Tehillim 1981 Steve Reich – Drumming 1971 There are a handful of sacred founding texts when it comes to the world of US minimalist music. Terry Riley’s In C certainly, John Adams’s Harmonielehre and Short…

  • Hagen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall review ****

    Hagen Quartet Wigmore Hall, 29th April 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73 String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144 To paraphrase a great man about a great band “always different, always…

  • Junkyard at the Rose Theatre review *****

    Junkyard Rose Theatre Kingston, 30th April 2017 Once again I am writing some thoughts about a play (well musical in this case) which has been and gone. I really haven’t got the hang of this have I. Still this blog is mostly to stop me from annoying the rest of…

  • Hysteria at the Greenwich Theatre review ****

    Hysteria Greenwich Theatre, 29th April 2017 I will keep this short and sweet. Whilst this production by London Classic Theatre has been and gone from Greenwich it is still touring with dates in Oldham, Yeovil, Newtown, Aberdare, Dunstable and Colchester. In my view this kind of touring productions deserves your…

  • Kopatchinskaja and Gabetta at the Wigmore Hall review ****

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta Wigmore Hall, 27th April 2017 Iannis Xenakis – Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann – Extracts from 24 Duos for violin and cello Maurice Ravel – Sonata for violin and cello György Ligeti – Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös – a Call Zoltán Kodály – Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 So…

  • The Plague at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    The Plague Arcola Theatre, 27th April 2017 I booked this not knowing quite what to expect. I couldn’t really visualise how this was going to be staged but was intrigued at the idea. Well more fool me. Neil Bartlett and the cast have done a wonderful job in bringing Camus’s…

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Harold Pinter theatre review ****

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th April 2017 So I came quite late, as is my wont, to this particular party for one reason and another. There is still a month to go on the run though and this is definitely worth seeing. Though it still looks…

  • Consent at the National Theatre review *****

    Consent Dorfman, National Theatre, 27th April 2017 Crikey. This is a very fine piece of theatre make no mistake. This was my first exposure to Nina Raine’s writing though I had been really looking forward to it based on what I had read about her previous works and on the…

  • Incident at Vichy at the Finborough Theatre review ****

    Incident at Vichy Finborough Theatre, 16th April 2017 I haven’t see that many productions at the Finborough but what I have seen there has been uniformly excellent. This was no exception. This is an Arthur Miller play which premiered in 1964 and was prompted in part by a visit with…

  • The Crucible at Richmond Theatre review ****

    The Crucible Richmond Theatre, 15th April 2017 So in the interests of full disclosure Arthur Miller’s Crucible is one of my favourite plays. I know it is not original, I know that it is not historically accurate (doh, it is a play, it doesn’t have to be), I know it…