Lucy Ashe trained at the Royal Ballet School before moving to Oxford University to study English Literature. She is an author and her first novel, a historical fiction thriller entitled 'Clara & Olivia', was published in 2023. She also teaches English and Drama at Harrow School. She enjoys reviewing all theatre with particular interest in dance.
Seeta Patel Dance has brought an exciting double bill to Sadler’s Wells. Opening with a solo performance that is choreographed and performed by Seeta ...
The ballet Coppélia has a remarkable capacity for re-interpretation. What better foundation for a story about ambition and power than a tale of a dera...
A fantastic and fun gallop through the centuries, this is a wonderful production of Orlando. When an ensemble of actors all playing Virginia Woolf fil...
Audiences have come to expect high standards of excellence from a Matthew Bourne New Adventures production: exquisite storytelling, boundless energy, ...
Prepare for a rollercoaster of emotions. Marianne Elliott has directed COCK with impressive precision, shaping razor-sharp comic dialogue so that it b...
Kin surprises the audience at every turn. Comedy shifts into the most extraordinary acrobatics, which then propels us forward into poignant moments of...
I remember studying Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring for my A Level Dance many years ago, and finding it both terrifying and hypnotic, the drama of Strav...
William Tuckett is not satisfied with the version of Elizabeth I that history so often presents to us: a politician, a statesman, a demanding leader o...
