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Shook at the Southwark Playhouse review *****

Shook Southwark Playhouse, 16th November 2019 The Papatango New Writing Prize is apparently the biggest of its kind in the UK, offering its winner the guarantee of a production and a commission to support a follow up play. The Funeral Director, Hanna, Trestle, Foxfinder, and especially Matt Grinter’s Orca, have…

December 12, 2019
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The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory review *****

The Watsons Menier Chocolate Factory, 16th November 2019 Fannyed about and failed to book this when it came to Chichester. Wasn’t about to make the same mistake again so quick off the mark when the transfer to the MCF was announced and a three line whip to include the SO…

December 10, 2019
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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
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Queens Theatre Hornchurch review ****

The Beauty Queen of Leenane Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, 14th November 2019 From one side of London to the other. All on track until the very last gasp, so snuck in a few minutes late to this. A big thanks to the very helpful ushers at this friendly house. TBQOL isn’t…

December 7, 2019
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Pergolesi and Vivaldi: OAE at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Katherine Watson (soprano), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Zoe Brookshaw (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11th November 2019 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) – Stabat Mater Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) – Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 No.2 Antonio Vivaldi…

December 6, 2019
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Joanna MacGregor at the Wigmore Hall review ****

Joanna MacGregor (piano) Wigmore Hall, 11th November 2019 Birds, Grounds, Chaconnes Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) – Le rappel des oiseaux François Couperin (1668-1733) – Les fauvétes plaintives Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – Le merle noir Jean-Philippe Rameau – La poule Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) – On an Overgrown Path X. The barn owl…

December 5, 2019
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Ten best ever songs – cover versions

I confess I got a bit bored trying to catch up with all the high culture I have enjoyed and still intend to document. Robert Wyatt (there he is) then popped up on the playlist (I’m A Believer) and I thought a diversion was in order. So ten brilliant cover…

December 5, 2019
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London Sinfonietta and Tansy Davies at Kings Place review ****

London Sinfonietta, Richard Baker (conductor), Tansy Davies (electronics), Elaine Mitchener (mezzo soprano), Elizabeth Burley (piano), Sound Intermedia Kings Place, 9th November 2019 Tansy Davies – Salt box (2005) Tansy Davies – Loophole and Lynchpins (2002-3) Naomi Pinnock – everything does change (2012) Tansy Davies – The rule is love (2019) Tansy Davies – grind show (electric) (2007) Tansy Davies –…

December 5, 2019
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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
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Alls Well That Ends Well at the Jermyn Street Theatre review *****

All’s Well That Ends Well Jermyn Street Theatre, 6th November 2019 Hard to credit but the Tourist had never seen a production of AWTEW until now. Which made the pleasure in seeing Tom Littler’s pint sized production, in tandem with the Guildford Shakespeare Company, even sweeter. Wiki tells me that…

December 3, 2019

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