East is South Tim Hochstrasser 19/02/2025AI and its manifestations are hardly ever out of the news these days, and rightly so, given the huge implications...
Mary, Queen of Scots Tim Hochstrasser 17/02/2025If you find yourself browsing the bookshops at stations and airports there is almost always to be found a new...
Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew Tim Hochstrasser 17/02/2025At the outset this play seems to be a didactic tract for the times – Pip, played by author Coral...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Firebird Tim Hochstrasser 14/01/2025‘Firebird’ takes its inspiration, somewhat loosely, from the memoir of actor Sergei Fetisov, and is set in the Soviet Union...
Fascinating Aida Tim Hochstrasser 11/01/2025What more is there to say about Fascinating Aida? They are an international institution, who have performed for royalty and...
City of Night Birds Tim Hochstrasser 10/01/2025This is Juhea Kim’s second novel, and it is both a technically accomplished and highly accessible, compelling read. The story...
The Invention of Love Tim Hochstrasser 18/12/2024One of my teachers once told me that the secret to a good lecture is to develop a single idea...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2024In recent years I have reviewed many productions of this play (and Britten’s opera derived from it) and mostly in...
Shakespeare Revisited Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2024The National Opera Studio, supported by our main opera companies, runs a Young Artists course each year for singers on...
