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Category: Religion

• Culture History London Magic Religion Theatre Tragedy USA

  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…

  May 11, 2019
• Comedy Culture Enlightenment France London Religion Theatre

  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…

  May 7, 2019
• Comedy Culture London Musicals Religion Theatre USA

  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…

  May 3, 2019
• Baroque Church Classical Music Concert Culture London Passion Religion

  Bach St John Passion: OAE at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Simon Rattle (conductor), Peter Sellars (director), Choir of the Enlightenment Royal Festival Hall, 2nd April 2019 JS Bach – St John Passion Camilla Tilling (soprano) Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Staples (tenor) Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist) Roderick Williams (baritone, Jesus) George Nigl (baritone) The Tourist, along with chum for the night…

  April 15, 2019
• Classics Culture London Religion Sexuality Theatre

  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…

  March 28, 2019
• Culture Identity Ireland London Politics Religion Theatre

  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,…

  March 26, 2019
• Culture Denmark History London Religion Resistance Theatre War

  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…

  February 17, 2019
• art Church Culture Early Music Exhibition History Literature London Medieval Monarchy Politics Religion

  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…

  January 13, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Religion

  Ligeti, Bartok and Haydn choral works at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor), Camilla Tilling, Adele Charvet, Julien Behr, Christopher Purves, William Thomas Barbican Hall, 11th November 2018 Gyorgy Ligeti – Lontano Bela Bartok – Cantata profana Haydn – Nelson Mass Three composers I like. Three works I did not know. A slightly earlier start.…

  November 26, 2018
• art Classics Culture Exhibition Italy London Religion Renaissance

  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…

  November 25, 2018