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Time Stands Still: Aurora Orchestra at Kings Place review ****
Aurora Principal Players, Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Sally Pryce (harp), John Reid (piano), Nico Muhly Kings Place, 23rd November 2018 Satie – Gymnopédie No. 3 Thomas Adès – The Lover in Winter Nico Muhly – Clear Music Debussy – Danse Sacrée et Danse profane Brahms – Gestillte Sehnsucht Nico Muhly –…
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White Teeth at the Kiln Theatre review ****
White Teeth Kiln Theatre, 21st November 2018 I have never read Zadie Smith’s 2000 debut novel White Teeth. So I have no benchmark against which to set the adaptation by Stephen Sharkey, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, which is still showing at the Kiln. I gather it is something of a…
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Pinter at Pinter 3 review ****
Pinter at the Pinter Three Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th November 2018 Tess Landscape Apart From That Girls That’s All God’s District Monologue That’s Your Trouble Special Offer Trouble In The Works Night A Kind Of Alaska Just to be clear I am a fan of the work of Harold Pinter.…
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Brodsky Quartet at Kings Place review *****
Brodsky Quartet, In Time of War Kings Place, 18th November 2018 Karen Tanaka – At the grave of Beethoven Erwin Schulhoff – String Quartet No 1 Shostakovich – String Quartet No 8 Dave Brubeck – Regret George Crumb – Black Angels It’s been donkey’s years since I last saw the…
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Tamburlaine at the RSC Swan Theatre review ****
Tamburlaine Swan Theatre, RSC Stratford, 17th November 2018 If you scroll down you will see a so-called review of the play Switzerland. Though focussed on the author Patricia Highsmith it referenced her most famous character Tom Ripley. One of the most beguiling bad boys in fictional history. However he was…
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Switzerland at the Ambassadors Theatre review **
Switzerland Ambassador’s Theatre, 16th November 2018 A couple of weeks prior to Switzerland the Tourist took in another play by Joanna Murray-Smith, Honour, at the Park Theatre. A very fine cast and a sharp enough dissection of a marriage broken by the cliche of the husband leaving for a younger…
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Mistero Buffo at the Arcola Theatre review ****
Mistero Buffo Arcola Theatre, 15th November 2018 This probably ranks as one of the Tourist’s least insightful assertions, (and trust me there is stiff and substantial competition), but, in his experience, there are two types of one person theatre. The pure monologue, often fairly static, relying on the appeal of…
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