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The Gronholm Method at the Menier Chocolate Factory review ****
The Gronholm Method Menier Chocolate Factory, 12th May 2018 Curious place the Menier Chocolate Factory. Properly fringe in looks and feel. But programming which is more Bournemouth than Borough. Still it knows its audience and seems to pack ’em in, even with prices that seem a little more confident than…
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DNA and The Fall: National Youth Theatre at the Southwark Playhouse review *****
DNA, The Fall – National Youth Theatre Southwark Playhouse, 11th May and 14th May 2018 Let’s imagine you want to go to the theatre. To see a proper play. Let’s take the revival of Red for example at the Wyndham’s. 90 minutes straight through so not too taxing. Big name…
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The Writer at the Almeida Theatre review *****
The Writer Almeida Theatre, 9th May 2018 The Writer is …. an absolutely staggering piece of …. writing. No other way to say it. I’d wager there were a few punters in the audience that disagree with me but I think Ella Hickson, along with director Blanche McIntyre and the…
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Icebreaker at Kings Place review ****
Icebreaker: Velocity Kings Place, 5th May 2018 Anna Meredith – Nautilus Michael Gordon – Yo Shakespeare Paul Whitty – nature is a language – can’t you read? David Lang – Slow Movement Louis Andriessen – De snelheid (‘Velocity’) Boundaries. And their close, and troublesome cousins, borders. The bane of human…
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Our Country’s Good at Theatre Royal Stratford review ****
Our Country’s Good Theatre Royal Stratford East, 28th April 2018 Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good is one of my favourite plays. As it is for many theatre-goers. The context, the “First Fleet” of British convicts sent to Australia with their Royal Marine guards in the 1780s, and the setting, Sydney…
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Shostakovich from the Philharmonia and Ashkenazy review ****
Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), James Ehnes (violin) Royal Festival Hall, 29th April 2018 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, Op.77 Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43 Apparently Vladimir Ashkenazy was at the premiere of the Fourth Symphony. In 1961, in Moscow, 25 years after it…
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