Category: Magic
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Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ***
Macbeth Chichester Festival Theatre, 16th October 2019 Still waiting for that, ha ha, killer production of Macbeth. This unfortunately wasn’t it. Paul Miller, the inestimable AD of the punching-above-its-weight Orange Tree, had money to spend here. An 18 strong cast (with many actors in minor roles that had caught my…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre review *****
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bridge Theatre, 6th June 2019 Go join the Shakespeare party down at the Bridge. Nick Hytner pretty much always nails the Bard and he has done it again here. Ignore the lukewarm reviews from the critics who seem to have got a little bit antsy with…
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The Crucible at the Yard Theatre review ****
The Crucible The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick, 29th April 2019 The latest instalment in the Tourist’s engagement with this year’s unofficial Arthur Miller season was director Jay Miller’s often insightful, occasionally daft take on The Crucible which for me, and I know this is not the aesthete’s choice, probably just…
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The Magic Flute at the ENO review *****
The Magic Flute English National Opera, 28th March 2019 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When opera works there is no other art form to touch. But when it doesn’t it can be mystifyingly dull. What’s more it can be the very same opera which is both…
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Unmythable at the Vault Festival review ****
Unmythable, Out of Chaos Vault Festival, 3rd March 2019 There was all sorts of cutting edge theatre, comedy and performance on at the Vault Festival this year, but being the old fart that he is the Tourist largely plumped for the safe options of comic takes on Greek myths. Satisfying…
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The Tempest at Greenwich Theatre review ****
The Tempest Greenwich Theatre, 16th February 2019 As my dear old mum would say “sometimes Michael you would forget your head if it wasn’t screwed on”. Not for the first time the Tourist managed to leave the programme for this performance by Lazarus Theatre Company of The Tempest in a…
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