The Last Days of Liz Truss? Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2026What more is there to say about Liz Truss? Did the lettuce have the final word, as well as the...
Titus, l’empereur – a Handelian premiere Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026This work is both real and artificial. Handel began an opera of this title, drawing evidently from Racine’s Berenice, but abandoned...
Ukraine Unbroken Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026This sequence of five short plays builds on the success of a similar exercise that Nicolas Kent put together some...
Savage Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2026Writer Claudio Macor has a knack for breathing fresh dramatic life into apparently familiar historical materials and giving them a...
Man & Boy Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2026This play is rarely produced, and the explanation for that rests rather with the circumstances of its debut rather than...
The Food of Love Tim Hochstrasser 18/02/2026To coincide with the St Valentine’s weekend Vache Baroque came to Fidelio Cafe with a Baroque tasting board of languishing...
Cash on Delivery Tim Hochstrasser 15/02/2026The waters were out to be sure in the Thames Valley this weekend, but the bonhomie and fine cuisine for...
The Ophiolite Tim Hochstrasser 07/02/2026This is a play with a self-conscious literary and historical past. In his programme note, author Philip de Voni acknowledges...
The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
Bigre/’FishBowl’ Tim Hochstrasser 30/01/2026The test of a great mime show is not that you don’t need the words but rather when you realise...
