At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

  • Hagen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall review ****

    Hagen Quartet Wigmore Hall, 29th April 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73 String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144 To paraphrase a great man about a great band “always different, always…

  • Junkyard at the Rose Theatre review *****

    Junkyard Rose Theatre Kingston, 30th April 2017 Once again I am writing some thoughts about a play (well musical in this case) which has been and gone. I really haven’t got the hang of this have I. Still this blog is mostly to stop me from annoying the rest of…

  • Hysteria at the Greenwich Theatre review ****

    Hysteria Greenwich Theatre, 29th April 2017 I will keep this short and sweet. Whilst this production by London Classic Theatre has been and gone from Greenwich it is still touring with dates in Oldham, Yeovil, Newtown, Aberdare, Dunstable and Colchester. In my view this kind of touring productions deserves your…

  • Kopatchinskaja and Gabetta at the Wigmore Hall review ****

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta Wigmore Hall, 27th April 2017 Iannis Xenakis – Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann – Extracts from 24 Duos for violin and cello Maurice Ravel – Sonata for violin and cello György Ligeti – Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös – a Call Zoltán Kodály – Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 So…

  • The Plague at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    The Plague Arcola Theatre, 27th April 2017 I booked this not knowing quite what to expect. I couldn’t really visualise how this was going to be staged but was intrigued at the idea. Well more fool me. Neil Bartlett and the cast have done a wonderful job in bringing Camus’s…

  • Creating Modernism in France at the Ashmolean Museum review ****

    Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 20th April 2017 So a day trip to the Ashmolean to take in this exhibition and a bit of the mighty Ashmolean’s permanent collection, (favourites include the Sickert room, the Medieval English collection and the Chinese ceramics and art).…

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Harold Pinter theatre review ****

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th April 2017 So I came quite late, as is my wont, to this particular party for one reason and another. There is still a month to go on the run though and this is definitely worth seeing. Though it still looks…

  • Consent at the National Theatre review *****

    Consent Dorfman, National Theatre, 27th April 2017 Crikey. This is a very fine piece of theatre make no mistake. This was my first exposure to Nina Raine’s writing though I had been really looking forward to it based on what I had read about her previous works and on the…

  • Incident at Vichy at the Finborough Theatre review ****

    Incident at Vichy Finborough Theatre, 16th April 2017 I haven’t see that many productions at the Finborough but what I have seen there has been uniformly excellent. This was no exception. This is an Arthur Miller play which premiered in 1964 and was prompted in part by a visit with…

  • The Crucible at Richmond Theatre review ****

    The Crucible Richmond Theatre, 15th April 2017 So in the interests of full disclosure Arthur Miller’s Crucible is one of my favourite plays. I know it is not original, I know that it is not historically accurate (doh, it is a play, it doesn’t have to be), I know it…