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Films you might want to watch

No excuse now not to catch up on documenting what I have seen in recent months given it will be some time before we are out and about. Spare a thought for your favourite theatres. Donate for cancelled performances or take the credit option. I appreciate there are more important…

March 21, 2020
Classical Music Concert Culture Symphony

OAE at the Royal Festival Hall review

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Roger Norrington (conductor) Royal Festival Hall, 28th January 2020 Beethoven – Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 The Tourist has signed up for a lot of Beethoven this year. And already enjoyed many performances from many different ensembles with many different interpretations. Most of the…

March 15, 2020
Community Culture Dystopia London Relationship Theatre

You Stupid Darkness! at the Southwark Playhouse review *****

You Stupid Darkness! Southwark Playhouse, 28th January 2020 With a whimper not a bang. That’s how the world ends in Sam Steiner’s new play. Though, given where we are now, (and as many reviews of this play seem to demand), you might be forgiven for thinking our selfish species will…

March 13, 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
Classical Music Concert Culture London Piano Soviet Union

Igor Levit plays Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues at the Barbican review *****

Igor Levit Barbican Hall, 26th January 2020 Dmitri Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 If you going to be inspired by anyone to write a monumental piano piece than JS Bach is a good place to start, specifically his Well Tempered Clavier collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues.…

March 10, 2020
Choral Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Oratorio

Christ on the Mount of Olives: LSO at the Barbican review ****

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), David Soar (bass), London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director) Barbican Hall, 19th January 2020 Berg – Violin Concerto Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 After a somewhat disappointing take…

March 9, 2020
Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Italy London Ravenna

Accademia Bizantina at Milton Court review *****

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director) Milton Court Concert Hall, 19th January 2020 Bach the Craftsman: The Art of Fugue In which, as part of a Bach weekend curated by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, Ottavio Dantone and his troupe of crack HIP strings play the Art of Fugue. I should probably stop there…

March 7, 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
Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture London Night Poetry

Horn Calls: Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor) Royal Festival Hall, 16th January 2020 Carl Maria von Weber – Overture Der Freischütz Mark-Anthony Turnage – Horn Concerto (Towards Alba) Benjamin Britten – Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Broke the golden rule. It…

March 6, 2020
Acting Comedy Culture Fiction Film London Mime Performance Physical Theatre Piano Theatre

The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****

The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel Wilton’s Music Hall, 16th January 2020 I was much taken with one of Told By An Idiot’s previous productions Napoleon Disrobed, which featured its co-founder and AD Paul Hunter alongside Ayesha Antoine, whose career unsurprisingly has gone fro strength to strength…

March 6, 2020
Classical Music Concert Culture Symphony

LSO: Beethoven and Berg at the Barbican review ***

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) Barbican Hall, 15th January 2020 Berg – Seven Early Songs Beethoven – Symphony No 7 One of these Half Six Fix early start capers that Sir Si has introduced, a capital idea. A pairing of Berg with Beethoven. Sir Si being…

March 1, 2020
Comedy Culture Gender London Love Shakespeare Stratford upon Avon Theatre

As You Like It at the Barbican Theatre review ***

As You Like It Barbican Theatre, 15th January 2020 As You Like It? Not really like this. Mind you I have yet to see a production of the play that really bowled me over. The NT production from 2016 directed by Polly Findlay looked great, office chairs becoming the Forest…

March 1, 2020

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