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WEBSep 27, 2024 · The Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary. British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes …
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WEB3 days ago · A Face in the Crowd, Young Vic review - lame rehash of a 1950s film satire. Helen Hawkins Monday, 30 September 2024. It’s hard to work out why Kwame-Kwei Armah chose to end his tenure at the Young Vic by directing this soggy musical by Elvis Costello (songs/lyrics) and the American playwright Sarah Ruhl (book).
Angry and Young, Almeida Theatre review – vigorous and …
WEB1 day ago · But beyond the details of the dramas’ personal relationships, which today still come across as intense and alive, the plays also share ideas that likewise seem relevant: both are about masculinity as domination, femininity as self-denial, both are about sex, both are about class, both are about death, both mention nuclear weapons, both view ...
The Marrriage of Figaro, Opera Project, Tobacco Factory, Bristol …
WEB20 hours ago · The Marriage of Figaro is undoubtedly one of the greatest operas ever written. Mozart’s masterpiece is a display of musical perfection that never ceases to touch the heart and stimulate the musical mind. This gripping and enormously entertaining tale of love, illusion and betrayal, draws its appeal and strength from an array of fallible ...
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WEBThe Silver Cord, Finborough Theatre review - Sophie Ward is compellingly repellent. Gary Naylor Saturday, 07 September 2024. One of the Finborough Theatre’s Artistic Director, Neil McPherson’s, gifts is an uncanny ability to find long-forgotten plays that work, right here, right now. He’s struck gold again with The Silver Cord, presenting ...
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WEBAs Fiona Shaw’s shiningly free and easy narration told us, Shakespeare’s sparring Beatrice and Benedick are merely counterpoint to a supposedly comic plot that becomes a potential tragedy, and tests the japers’ seriousness. Berlioz wanted none of that in his last opera, all southern sunlight and moonshine, caprice and reverie.
Dance reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
WEBBallet Nights #006, Cadogan Hall review - a mixed bag of excellence. It’s exactly a year since Ballet Nights, the self-styled taster platform for dance, started offering chirpily compered evenings of ballet and contemporary at venues where you'd least expect to find them. A first anniversary is already an achievement; to have arrived there ...
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Best of 2021: Visual Arts - The Arts Desk
WEBDec 28, 2021 · Despite its much delayed start, 2021 was a great year for the visual arts, and institutions and artists alike showed their resilience in agile and sensitive responses to unprecedented conditions. The plastic arts took on a new significance as people adjusted to life without human touch; equally, the experience of viewing art online revealed the extent to which tactile qualities are experienced ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Royal Ballet review - big, bold …
WEB5 days ago · Dramaturg Nicholas Wright’s dramatic framing of the story – proposing real-life 1862 models for the characters in Wonderland – is a major strength. It’s really rather brilliant to have imagined the Knave of Hearts as the dishy under-gardener, sacked unfairly by Alice’s disapproving mother, who herself reappears as the vindictive Queen.