Tag: Lizzie Clachlan
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Orphee at ENO review ***
Orphee English National Opera, 27th November 2019 The Mask of Orpheus. Extraordinary music, fine singing, showy production. Orpheus and Eurydice. Fine music, mostly, superb singing, faulty production. So how would the Tourist fair in his third encounter with the Orpheus myth in the ENO season. Well since you ask. Best…
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The Son at the Kiln Theatre review ****
The Son Kiln Theatre, 20th March 2019 After this, The Father, the Mother and The Height of the Storm, there is still a part of me that gets antsy at the work of Gallic wunderkind, Florian Zeller, and his English translator Christopher Hampton. There is something just too clever, too…
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Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court Theatre review ****
Cyprus Avenue Royal Court Theatre, 4th March 2019 From one black comedy which imagines taboo breaking violence to make a political point (here big as well as small “p”) to another. Having seen the Ladykiller from The Thelmas at the Vault Festival it was off next evening with the SO,…
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar Warehouse review ****
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Donmar Warehouse, 19th July 2018 The SO obviously is a big fan of Muriel Spark’s novel. We are both big fans of Ronald Neame’s film version, (only the other day I revisited this director’s magnificently cheesy The Poseidon Adventure), though let’s face it that…
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Gloria at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
Gloria Hampstead Theatre, 4th July 2017 Right. This might actually be a review of, albeit dubious, utility. There are 3 weeks or so left on the run and there are a fair few tickets left. And this is a fine piece of theatre with an interesting premise, formal innovation, enough…
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Life of Galileo at the Young Vic review ****
Life of Galileo Young Vic, 21st June 2017 My Brechtian education continues apace. Who would have thought that until a couple of years ago I hadn’t see any Brecht plays at all and frankly wasn’t that interested having been put off by the great man’s reputation. What a klutz I…