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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir at Milton Court review ****
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Milton Court Concert Hall, 30th January 2018 Arvo Part Solfeggio Summa Magnificat Zwei Beter The Woman With the Alabaster Box Nunc dimittis Dopo la vittoria Cyrillus Kreek Onnis on inimene (Blessed is the Man) Psalm 104 Jonathan Harvey Plainsongs for Peace and Light…
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Darkest Hour film review ****
Darkest Hour, 30th January 2018 I wonder when they decided? Is it what the producers demanded at the outset? Was it always there in Antony McCarten’s script? Did director Joe Wright, (who has shown in his stage work at the Young Vic with Life of Galileo and A Season in…
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The Open House at the Print Room Coronet review ***
The Open House The Print Room Coronet, 27th January 2018 Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Sam Shepherd, Lillian Hellman. All succeeded at writing a Great American Play, or in some cases Plays, about dysfunctional families. In an entirely naturalistic way. It is the meat and…
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Glengarry Glen Ross at the Playhouse Theatre review ****
Glengarry Glen Ross Playhouse Theatre, 25th January 2018 I am wary of West End productions that import a big American movie star to embellish a revival. And, like most ill thought out prejudice, this invariably turns out to be wrong. Still the only person harmed by this ignorance is me.…
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Dry Powder at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
Dry Powder Hampstead Theatre, 29th January 2018 At last a play about the world of “high finance” which does not wade in with both feet in some ham-fisted (I know, mangled metaphors), didactic attempt to explain to the audience why it is “evil”. Actually that is a little unfair as…
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Edward II at Greenwich Theatre review ****
Edward II Greenwich Theatre, 24th January 2018 Right then, This is what theatre is all about. Take a cast-iron classic history play from Jacobean bad-boy Kit Marlowe, hack out thematic repetition, wordiness and some characters, pare back set, costumes, sound and lighting, and let a young, hungry cast do its…
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Colin Currie Group at Kings Place review ****
Colin Currie Group Kings Place, 20th January 2018 Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood New York Counterpoint Mallet Quartet Drumming Part 1 Vermont Counterpoint Quartet (2013) So off to Kings Place for another immersion into the sound world of Steve Reich guided by his finest living advocates (probably), the…
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Tate Modern review ****
Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Tate Modern, 19th January 2018 I know it is not easy to make out but take a good peer at the image above. This is an installation created in 1985 by Russian conceptual artist, Ilya Kabakov. The Man…
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Red Star Over Russia at Tate Modern review ****
Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905-55 Tate Modern, 19th January 2018 I have always coveted a collection. I mean a proper collection. I have a fair few CDs, (I have bought maybe 6 or 7 download only albums in my life – not having a physical…
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