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  A History of British Architecture: Prehistoric Britain c.3800 BCE to 43 AD

  A meander through the history of British Architecture by era. Part 1 Prehistoric Britain.

  April 18, 2026
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  Catching up (Part 7)

  July 2021 Out West – The Overseas Student – Blue Water and Cold and Fresh – Go, Girl – Lyric Hammersmith – 7th July – ***** Rachel O’Riordan, the AD at the Lyric Hammersmith, might be as good if not better at programming plays as she is directing herself. And…

  January 31, 2023
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  Catching up (Part 4)

  January 2021 to April 2021 The novelty of digital entertainment by now very much worn off but, fortunately, there were plenty of other worthwhile distractions (the return of birdwatching after four decades perhaps the most surprising) for the Tourist to mask the lack of live cultural stimulation. (And travel, which…

  November 10, 2021
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  Catching up (Part 2)

  March 2020 First week of March 2020. I see that I was still out and about but I also see that I avoided a few entertainments before the cancellations started in earnest and the first lockdown kicked in. I remember feeling a little nervous but obviously no precautions taken apart…

  October 25, 2021
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  The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  The Haystack Hampstead Theatre, 31st January 2020 Al Blyth is not your typical playwright. Having studied Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, (disciplines that spend an inordinate amount of time wishing away the presence of us unpredictable humans), he went on to work as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal…

  April 11, 2020
• Acting Contact Culture London Relationship Technology Theatre Transgression

  The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  The Sugar Syndrome Orange Tree Theatre, 27th January 2020 With last year’s A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic, The Effect from 2012, (about to be revived at the fancy newish Boulevard), and ENRON from 2010, as well as Secret Diary of a Cal Girl and, most recently, the…

  March 11, 2020
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  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
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  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019
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  Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at King’s Place review *****

  Bang on a Can All Stars, BBC Singers, Tecwyn Evans (conductor) Kings Place Hall One, 19th January 2019 I had heard a few snippets of Julia Wolfe’s compositions but freely admit this was a bit of a leap into the unknown. Still what I had heard seemed interesting, I was keen…

  January 29, 2019
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  Space Shifters exhibition at the Hayward Gallery ***

  Space Shifters Hayward Gallery, 21st December 2018 Here is another one of the cleverly constructed exhibitions from the Hayward team which brings together a variety of visual works (20 in total), in different media, from different artists which delight, intrigue and entertain. The works span some five decades, (with some…

  January 4, 2019