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Blood Wedding at the Young Vic review ****

Blood Wedding Young Vic, 11th October 2019 I got a bit nervous going into this. For those who don’t know, South African director Yael Farber has a certain style, an aesthetic, and approach to interpretation of classic plays, which isn’t too everyone’s taste. For me it works. Mies Julie, Knives…

November 19, 2019
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Barber Shop Chronicles at the Oxford Playhouse review *****

Barber Shop Chronicles Oxford Playhouse, 10th October 2019 My regular reader is likely on the verge of giving up on the grounds that otiose attitude, (a sign of which is that I am running out of synonyms for lazy in these preamble apologies), means most of these comments take so…

November 18, 2019
Acting Culture Film Jazz London Manchester Relationship Theatre

A Taste of Honey at Richmond Theatre review ***

A Taste Of Honey Richmond Theatre, 9th October 2019 Not quite sure I know how a production such as this is taken under the wing of the National Theatre, and let’s face it it’s none of my business anyway. But I do think I can work out why this particular…

November 17, 2019
Capitalism Culture London Property Theatre

Valued Friends at the Rose Theatre Kingston ***

Valued Friends Rose Theatre Kingston, 8th October 2019 I am all for revivals of modern plays that have something to say to us right now. Assuming the play was good enough in the first place. And that the director and creative team have a clear idea of how they craft…

November 17, 2019
Agency Community Culture Economics Institution London Politics Theatre

Faith, Hope and Charity at the National Theatre review ****

Faith, Hope and Charity National Theatre Dorfman, 8th October 2019 I didn’t catch the first two plays in Alexander Zeldin’s trilogy, Beyond Caring (zero hours contracts) and Love (a homeless hostel), about life for the disadvantaged in modern Britain. In fact worse that that I didn’t even know about them.…

November 17, 2019
Amsterdam Culture Europe History Identity London Memory Netherlands Theatre Truth

Amsterdam at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

Amsterdam Orange Tree Theatre, 5th October 2019 The UK premiere of Israeli playwright Maya Arad Yasur’s “strikingly original, audacious thriller”. Hmm. Striking yes. Original. I guess so. Audacious thriller. Not so sure. It is a fascinating story with a powerful message but its formal construction serves to distract and obfuscate…

November 15, 2019
Classical Music Culture Enlightenment London Opera

Seraglio at the Hackney Empire review ****

Seraglio Hackney Empire, 4th October 2019 Or to give it its full name Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail or The Abduction from the Seraglio. Here though Seraglio, not just to reflect the fact that this English Touring Opera production is sung, (and spoken), in English following a colloquial translation by…

November 15, 2019
Culture Family London Race Theatre USA

Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

Appropriate Donmar Warehouse, 3rd October 2019 After deconstructing a Victorian melodrama in An Octoroon and satirising modern tragedy in Gloria, London now gets to see Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2013 take on the dysfunctional American family drama. Only this time the secret which lies at the heart of the Lafayette family is…

November 13, 2019
Baroque Contemporary Classical Culture Georgian Ireland London Opera

The Intelligence Park at the Linbury Theatre review ***

The Intelligence Park Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House, 2nd October 2019 I have no-one else to blame for this. Having now heard a smattering of his larger scale works thanks in large part to Thomas Ades’s advocacy in his Beethoven cycle with the Britten Sinfonia, having invested in a CD…

November 13, 2019
Culture France London Politics Power Theatre USA

Two Ladies at the Bridge Theatre review *

Two Ladies Bridge Theatre, 2nd October 2019 Well on the plus side the new season just announced at the Bridge looks to be a humdinger. A revival of Caryl Churchill’s A Number, directed by Polly Findlay with Roger Allam and Colin Morgan as Salter and son(s), Nick Hytner taking on…

November 13, 2019

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