Even though it is a love story culminating in a marriage that begins this tale, Innocence is not a love story; not, that is, in the traditional operat...
Paintings of bodies may capture the lushness, frailty and decay of flesh. But if vitality means to be in motion then dance, with its calculated, risk-...
We walk into a warehouse-like space. Inside, there are five pre-fabricated rooms. We are divided into five groups, each with a leader to navigate our ...
Urusla Martinez' A family outing- 20 years later, playing at the Barbican's Pitt and part of the Barbican's 2019 Life Rewired season, is a hilarious b...
Theatre Royal Stratford East's 'Sleeping Beauty' is a roaring, gorgeous piece of work, balancing the gaudy license of traditional panto with some trul...
The sheer lushness of the St. Petersburg Theatre's production of Swan Lake is staggering. The production values are high - superb sets with mere cloth...
When Howard Barker is at the top of his game, as he is in this play, his words sing. Although ' In the depths of dead love' is very much within the ca...
Used as one now is to the adult jokes embedded in kids’ movies, a tic that has always, it seems, been prevalent in panto, it is strange to come across...
Of all the three pieces in Sasha Waltz Sacre, the one I found most difficult to emotionally engage with was the title and last piece, Sacre, set to St...
Jefta van Dinther’s ‘As it Empties Out’ is more installation than dance piece, though it does have some very fine dance sequences in it. There are vis...
