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  Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Faustus: That Damned Woman Lyric Hammersmith, 5th February 2020 I bet Chris Bush was good at English at school and maybe beyond. In the precis question. For she has an unerring eye/ear/pen for taking complicated/contentious/convoluted issues and dramas and rendering them explicable, topical and entertaining. Kicking off with TONY! The…

  April 25, 2020
• art Bible Culture Drawing Exhibition History Installation Landscaoe London Myths Nature Painting Place Power Prints Sculpture Technology

  Rembrandt’s Light at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (and others) review *****

  Rembrandt’s Light Dulwich Picture Gallery, 17th January 2020 The Tourist has been a bit remiss in keeping up the records on art exhibitions over the last few months so in addition to the above he will offer a few thoughts on other visits. Rembrandt‘s Light first. The DPG exhibition space…

  March 7, 2020
• Beauty Classics Culture Film London Minimalism Myths Opera Paris Poetry

  Orphee at ENO review ***

  Orphee English National Opera, 27th November 2019 The Mask of Orpheus. Extraordinary music, fine singing, showy production. Orpheus and Eurydice. Fine music, mostly, superb singing, faulty production. So how would the Tourist fair in his third encounter with the Orpheus myth in the ENO season. Well since you ask. Best…

  January 20, 2020
• Acting Culture Dreams Fiction London Myths Stories Theatre Truth

  The Antipodes at the National Theatre review ****

  The Antipodes National Theatre Dorfman, 23rd November 2019 I’ll tell you what. That Annie Baker backs herself. Here is another long play, near 2 hours straight through, where, visually, nothing much happens, bar a properly weird interlude, and dense with word. And this time it is a story about stories,…

  January 14, 2020
• Classical Music Classics Culture Dance London Love Myths Opera

  Orpheus and Eurydice at the ENO review ***

  Orpheus and Eurydice English National Opera, 14th November 2019 The second part of my engagement with the ENO O&E odyssey. (See how easy it easy to be a librettist). Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus first, simultaneously monumental and camp, Philip Glass’s homage to Cocteau’s Orphee to come in a couple…

  December 8, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture England London Myths Opera Restoration

  King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Cadogan Hall review ***

  London Concert Choir, Counterpoint, Mark Forkgen (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Bethany Partridge (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Way (tenor), Peter Willcock (baritone) Cadogan Hall, 7th November 2019 Henry Purcell – King Arthur Early afternoon spent in the company of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’s Joker before an…

  December 4, 2019
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London Myths Opera

  The Mask of Orpheus at the ENO review ****

  The Mask of Orpheus English National Opera, 25th October 2019 No idea where we were in the story for much of the getting on for four hours with with the two intervals. Not helped by Peter Zinovieff’s impenetrable libretto, sung and spoken, the bloated rock star gets lost in early…

  November 27, 2019
• Adventure Culture Fantasy Identity London Myths Theatre

  Peer Gynt at the National Theatre review ****

  Peer Gynt National Theatre Olivier, 1st October 2019 I know what I need. A bit more Ibsen. There are reasons why theatre-makers keep returning to the master and the slew of high profile productions in London this year alone is a reminder of why. I would probably plump for Ian…

  November 12, 2019
• Culture London Myths Theatre

  Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. review at the Royal Court Theatre *****

  Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. Royal Court Theatre, 30th September 2019 Caryl Churchill is the greatest English language living playwright and, IMHO, the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. Now I know that many of you would disagree, and that the vast majority of people on the planet couldn’t give a f*ck, but…

  November 8, 2019
• Culture London Myths Nationhood Opera USA

  Paul Bunyan at Alexandra Park Theatre review ****

  Paul Bunyan Alexandra Park Theatre, 11th May 2019 What was that all about? Benjamin Britten and WH Auden’s “choral operetta” which premiered in 1941 when they were in America, is a fable, structured like a Broadway musical, with an array of musical styles, (though BB’s hand is always clear), sometimes…

  May 29, 2019