Tim Hochstrasser is a historian teaching early modern intellectual and cultural history at the LSE. He has a long-standing commitment to the visual, musical and dramatic arts, and opera above all, as a unifying and inspiring vehicle for all of them.
This project began as a micro-play at the Royal Court in 2014 and now comes to the National Theatre at the same time ‘Albion’ returns elsewhere. It is...
After a long period of closure the flexible creative spaces of Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios are open once more, though not yet complete. A wide, we...
This production is a revival of Lucy Prebble’s debut play from 2003. For those who only know her work through the grandly ambitious themes of ‘Enron’ ...
This new play written by the renowned actor John Kani is a co-production between the RSC and the Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, and comes to London after ...
Rags tells the story of Rebecca, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, and her son David. Despite not meeting the immigration restrictions, they mak...
When Bernard Shaw wrote that ‘Othello’ was ‘a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera’, he was onto something more than just a witty...
Why is Bernard Shaw now so rarely performed? At the time of his death in 1950 he was considered the finest living dramatist within the British Isles, ...
When you learn that a performance of this play will only last a little over an hour it is a shock to the system. In Chekhov you generally expect time ...
This opera is one where the biographical context of the composer is more than usually relevant. With his health failing in the early 1970s and a heart...
This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Joe Simpson’s remarkable memoir, Touching the Void, later made into an equally successful...
