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Ligeti Immersion Day at the Barbican review ****

Ligeti Immersion Day, Guildhall Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Sofi Jeaninn (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), Nicolas Hodges (piano) Milton Court Concert Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican Hall, 2nd March 2019 Not obligatory to illustrate the world of Gyorgy Ligeti with a “universe” picture. But given the…

March 21, 2019
Comedy Community Culture Film Ireland London Theatre

Stones in His Pockets at the Rose Kingston review ***

Stones in His Pockets Rose Theatre Kingston, 1st March 2019 Like Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, and written at the same time, Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets is a comedy which examines the impact when a Hollywood film crew descends on a small Irish community. But where one…

March 21, 2019
Culture Ireland Manchester Theatre

A Skull in Connemara at the Oldham Coliseum review ****

A Skull in Connemara Oldham Coliseum, 28th February 2019 Two successive nights. Two revivals of comedies looking at the nature of “Irishness”. Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara and Marie Jones Stones in His Pockets. Which did the Tourist prefer? McDonagh’s black comedy of course. Bit trickier to get to,…

March 20, 2019
Capitalism Culture Economics Manchester Power Theatre War

Mother Courage and her Children at the Royal Exchange Manchester review ****

Mother Courage and her Children Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 28th February 2019 Brecht. Royal Exchange. Headlong (This House, People, Places and Things, Labour of Love, Common, Junkyard, 1984, The Glass Menagerie, American Psycho and Enron – and that’s just what I can vouchsafe), Anna Jordan adapting, Amy Hodge, the Associate…

March 19, 2019
Culture London Relationship Theatre

Cost of Living at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

Cost of Living Hampstead Theatre, 27th February 2019 I can’t remember the last time I attended a performance at the Hampstead Theatre Upstairs or Downstairs that wasn’t, to all intents and purposes, full. Matinee or evening. Not a great surprise given the theatre’s reputation and location but still a testament…

March 18, 2019
Culture Friendship London Love Relationship Theatre

Bodies at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

Bodies Southwark Playhouse, 26th February 2019 Two’s Company is a theatre company which set out to explore plays written at the time of the Great War but has subsequently gone on to stage the English premiere of Hemingway’s only play and some Pinter productions. Here it has revived one of…

March 16, 2019
Culture Fiction Literature London Novel Theatre

Alys, Always at the Bridge Theatre review ****

Alys, Always Bridge Theatre, 25th February 2019 Said it before and I’ll say it again. You have to be careful with adaptations of novels and/or films on stage. There may be enough in character and plot to justify the transfer but there may not always, (no pun intended), be enough…

March 16, 2019
Amsterdam Baroque Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Renaissance

Lucie Horsch and the AAM at Milton Court review *****

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (harpsichord, director), Lucie Horsch (recorder) Milton Court Concert Hall, 24th February 2019 Antonio Vivaldi – Flautino Concerto in C major, RV443 (arr in G major for recorder) JS Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in D major BW V1054 Giuseppe Sammartini – Recorder Concerto…

March 15, 2019
Animation Classics Comedy Culture London Love Performance Poetry Theatre War

Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Vaults Festival review *****

Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pants on Fire, Vaults Festival, 23rd February Seven years in to the Vaults Festival and finally the Tourist takes the plunge. If there is a cutting edge to avoid you can be sure the Tourist finds it. It is not even as if the Waterloo location is inconvenient.…

March 13, 2019
Animation Culture Design London Resistance Theatre

The Animals and Children Took to the Streets at Lyric Hammersmith review ****

The Animals and Children Took to the Streets Lyric Hammersmith, 23rd February 2019 This took my eye in large part because of the description of its form in the Lyric blurb and in the many reviews that have followed its progress around the world since 2010 following a commission by…

March 11, 2019

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