Category: Religion
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Tartuffe at the National Theatre review *****
Tartuffe: The Imposter National Theatre Lyttleton, 24th April 2019 Top Girls. Downstate. Small Island. Follies which I can vouch for from the first run. And now this Tartuffe. All superb. If the NT is still going through a dodgy patch artistically then f*ck knows how good it is going to…
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The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre review ****
The Book of Mormon Prince of Wales Theatre, 20th April 2019 Better late than never. Six years after it opens the Tourist finally gets to see The Book of Mormon. As all Tourists should. Thanks to LS and LGN. Now the previous musical theatre adventures with the two of them…
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Equus at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review *****
Equus Theatre Royal Stratford East, 7th March 2019 Never seen Peter Shaffer’s Equus on stage before. Seen the film version which is a bit dry IMHO. So I was very happy to see that TRSE, in conjunction with the most excellent English Touring Theatre, were taking it on, joining the…
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Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court Theatre review ****
Cyprus Avenue Royal Court Theatre, 4th March 2019 From one black comedy which imagines taboo breaking violence to make a political point (here big as well as small “p”) to another. Having seen the Ladykiller from The Thelmas at the Vault Festival it was off next evening with the SO,…
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Rosenbaum’s Rescue at the Park Theatre review ***
Rosenbaum’s Rescue Park Theatre 200, 29th January 2018 Not quite sure why this didn’t entirely work for me. Alexander Bodin Sophir takes an intriguing story, the escape of 7500 Jews by boat from Copenhagen to Sweden in 1943 just before the Nazis were about to round them up, and puts…
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library review *****
Anglo-Saxon Kingsdoms: Art, Word, War British Library, 30th December 2018 I mean it isn’t all books. There are charters and letters as well. And pottery, coins, art and jewels. But there are a lot of books. Oh my word though, what beautiful books. If you are at all interested in…
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Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery review *****
Mantegna and Bellini National Gallery, 11th November 2018 11th November was turning into a very busy day for the Tourist. Fresh from the heady Edward Burne-Jones phantasmagoria at Tate Britain and a proper Sunday lunch, it was off to the National, now solo, for these Old Masters, before rounding off…
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Don Carlos at the Rose Kingston review ****
Don Carlos Rose Theatre Kingston, 9th November 2018 No one could accuse Friedrich Schiller of holding back in Don Carlos. Goethe inspired Sturm und Drang Romanticism, a Kantian paean to the centrality of personal freedom and democracy, the clash of liberty and tyranny, a stab at the sublime, a (loose)…
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The Funeral Director at the Southwark Playhouse review ****
The Funeral Director Southwark Playhouse, 6th November 2018 The Papatango New Writing Prize, which kicked off in 2009, is the first and only playwriting award which guarantees the winner a full scale professional production, a share of the takings and a commission for a follow up. Whilst I missed last…
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The Cardinal’s Musick at Wigmore Hall review ****
The Cardinal’s Musick, Andrew Carwood (director) Wigmore Hall, 27th September 2018 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motet Tu es Petrus, Missa Tu es Petrus, Gregorian Chant, Magnus Sanctus Paulus a 8 Giovanni Bassano – O Rex gloriae Jacob Handl – Sanctus Bartholomeus Thomas Crecquillon – Andreas Christi famulus Tomás Luis…
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