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Much Ado About Nothing at the Rose Kingston review ****
Much Ado About Nothing Rose Theatre Kingston, 20th April 2018 Come on fellow residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston and London Borough of Richmond – both upon Thames. Get your collective arses over to the Rose Theatre to see this new version of Much Ado About Nothing, celebrating the…
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Pericles, Prince de Tyr at Silk Street Theatre review *****
Pericles, Prince de Tyr Barbican Silk Street Theatre, 19th April 2018 Trust me. You can trust experts. Parading your own ignorance against all the evidence of those who know more than you, just to satisfy your own prejudice, is an ugly human foible. In the very small commercial world of…
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Stravinsky, Debussy and Shostakovich: LPO and Leif Ove Andsnes at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 18th April 2018 Stravinsky – Symphony in C, Stravinsky – Tango arr. for orchestra Debussy – Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 54 I am pretty confident that no-one reads…
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Caroline, or Change at the Hampstead Theatre review *****
Caroline, or Change Hampstead Theatre, 18th April 2018 How many exceptions does it take before the rule is unproven? I don’t, as a rule, like musicals, as I have oft repeated on these very pages. I absolutely adored this though. That might be because it isn’t your classic show tunes,…
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The Country Wife at Southwark Playhouse review ***
The Country Wife Southwark Playhouse, 17th April 2018 I haven’t seen that many Restoration comedies. In fact if I take the list of notable examples of the genre offered up by Wiki I see it is a grand total of one, in the form of the NT’s Beaux Stratagem from…
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Macbeth at the National Theatre review ***
Macbeth National Theatre Olivier, 14th April 2018 Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more This was frustrating. No way of hiding it. It promised so much. A Macbeth. With Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff,…
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The Marriage of Figaro at the ENO review *****
The Marriage of Figaro English National Opera, 12th April 2018 It isn’t easy to think of a better opera than the Marriage of Figaro. And, as we culture vultures know, when opera works there is scarcely any entertainment to match it. It is just a shame that opera so rarely…
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Isle of Dogs film review ****
Isle of Dogs, 12th April 2018 Many, many years ago, just after the London Docklands Development Corporation was set up in 1981 I had cause to visit the Isle of Dogs, the real one, as part of my academic studies. It was a desolate sh*thole then, with all due respect…
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Humble Boy at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***
Humble Boy Orange Tree Theatre, 11th April 2018 Sometimes it can be tricky to put your finger on exactly why a play doesn’t quite work for you. Other times it is easy. This was one of the latter. For me, writer Charlotte Jones lavishes so much attention on shoehorning in…
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