Reviews
THEATRE REVIEW: A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is littered with arcane references to obscure concepts and ideas with which a modern audience may…
THEATRE REVIEW: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, National Theatre
Mere minutes after the start of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre,…
DANCE REVIEW: Les Sept Planches de la Ruse
Exotic in its discipline, this show is an extended and unusual object animation using the brushstrokes of Beijing opera.
THEATRE REVIEW: Armature of the Absolute
This is punk theatre at its best. Marseille-based marionette circus Buchinger's Boot is a glorious, gluttonous junkyard of scavenged paraphernalia…
THEATRE REVIEW: August: Osage County, National Theatre
Tracy Letts’ masterpiece comes in at almost 4 hours and it is hard to see how it could be made…
DANCE REVIEW: Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands
You do not need to know Tim Burton’s 1990 film to enjoy Matthew Bourne’s modern ballet.
THEATRE REVIEW: The Cordelia Dream, RSC
In Marina Carr’s new work The Cordelia Dream, for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Wilton’s Music Hall, an old man…
THEATRE REVIEW: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Chickenshed
The Twelve Days of Christmas is effortlessly professional, slick and witty.
OPERA REVIEW: Hänsel und Gretel, The Royal Opera
I do not see the problem with ‘family shows’ exploring the stories’ darker strands. What are fairytales for if they…
MUSIC REVIEW: Simon Rattle, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
It may seem a conflict of interests to denote historically authentic performance as groundbreaking and openminded, until you've been spun…