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Julian Cope at the Barbican Hall review ****

Julian Cope Barbican Hall, 8th February 2020 February 21st 1982 if I am to believe t’Internet. Which, given that the source, Setlist.fm, is not associated with the hate and porn that comprises the vast majority of the web, seems reasonable in this case. The sorely missed Hammersmith Palais. The Teardrop…

May 9, 2020
Colonialism Culture Empire London Race Theatre Victorian

The Gift at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ***

The Gift Theatre Royal Stratford East, 8th February 2020 Another in the lengthening list of contemporary plays where the reach of ambition exceeds the grasp of execution. Janice Okoh has set her sights on “imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation … and tea” with her “outrageous” play set firstly, in Victorian…

May 7, 2020
Classical Music Concert Culture London Piano Sonata

Evgeny Kissin, Beethoven piano sonatas at the Barbican Hall review ***

Evgeny Kissin Barbican Hall, 6th February 2020 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 8, Op 13 Pathétique 15 Variations and a Fugue, Op 35 Piano Sonata No 17, Op 31 No 2 Tempest Piano Sonata No 21, Op 53 Waldstein Encore: various Bagatelles Op 126, Op 33, Variations Op 76 and Ecossaise WoO…

May 4, 2020
Classical Music Concert Culture Symphony

Mozart’s Final Flourish: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall review ***

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivan Fischer (conductor) Royal Festival Hall, 7th February 2020 Mozart Symphonies Nos 39, 40 and 41 The OAE, like so many of its orchestral peers, is doing a remarkable job in bringing music to us in this troubling times. All with a solidly educational…

April 28, 2020
Culture Family Horror London Puppetry Theatre

What the Dolls Saw at the Vault Festival review ****

What the Dolls Saw House of Macabre, Vault Festival, 5th February 2020 Off to the Vaults again, this time with the SO, to What the Dolls Saw from the all women House of Macabre company. It is a dark comedy, as one might have guessed, penned by Nic Lamont, who…

April 26, 2020
Culture Enlightenment Feminism History London Magic Mortality Myths Philosophy Religion Science Fiction Theatre Time

Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

Faustus: That Damned Woman Lyric Hammersmith, 5th February 2020 I bet Chris Bush was good at English at school and maybe beyond. In the precis question. For she has an unerring eye/ear/pen for taking complicated/contentious/convoluted issues and dramas and rendering them explicable, topical and entertaining. Kicking off with TONY! The…

April 25, 2020
Culture Feminism Georgian History Justice London Patriarchy Suffolk Theatre

The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

April 23, 2020
Age Comedy Culture Ireland London Memory Mime Mortality Performance Theatre Time TV

Beckett Trilogy at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****(and some other at-home Beckett stuff)

Beckett Trilogy: Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe, The Old Tune Jermyn Street Theatre, 4th February 2020 Fragments: Beckett by Brook – Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither , Come and Go – VIMEO, Bouffes du Nord – 26th March 2020 Endgame/Rough for Theatre II – Digital…

April 21, 2020
Agency Culture Elizabethan England Gender History London Monarchy Patriarchy Power Theatre

Swive at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse review ****

Swive Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, 3rd February 2020 I am very partial to the work of Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent, Boys, Oil, The Writer, ANNA, all have met their, expansive, ambition. Splendid theatre with something powerful to say. With Swive she has collaborated with director Natalie Abrahami, (who marshalled cast…

April 17, 2020
Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture Enlightenment Germany London Piano Quartet Romanticism Sonata Symphony

Beethoven Weekender at the Barbican review

Beethoven Weekender “This could be the closest thing to heaven …. “. No not the Tears for Fears dirge from 2004 but one of the many fine singles from the vastly under-rated, and alas short-lived, Kane Gang from 1984. The KG, along with the magnificent Prefab Sprout, and the rather…

April 14, 2020

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