Love Quirks Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2025The studio space at The Other Palace has provided the incubator for many a show that has gone on to...
Lacrima Tim Hochstrasser 28/09/2025Lacrima arrives at the Barbican not simply as a drama but as a contribution its current focus on fashion, and,...
Acosta Danza – Decade in Motion Tim Hochstrasser 27/09/2025Acosta Danza last visited Sadler’s Wells with their version of Carmen, and this presentation is very different in feel and...
The Code Tim Hochstrasser 21/09/2025The ‘Code’ in question here is the Hays Code, the moral guidelines that bound Hollywood film-making between 1934 and 1968,...
The Land of the Living Tim Hochstrasser 20/09/2025I did not think there were really any moral aspects of World War Two that had not had a detailed...
The Producers Tim Hochstrasser 19/09/2025After great success out at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Patrick Marber’s production of The Producers comes into town to take...
Murmuration Level 2 Tim Hochstrasser 19/09/2025We are all familiar with the mesmerising shape-shiftng of a murmuration of starlings as they wheel across the twlight skies,...
Bernstein & Copland Third Symphonies Tim Hochstrasser 16/09/2025Third Symphonies are often major and transformative works – think Beethoven’s Eroica or Mahler’s Third, in which an established composer...
Park Theatre Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2025Both these plays, lasting an hour each, take quite dark subject matter in very different directions, the first finding humour,...
The Genesis Tim Hochstrasser 07/09/2025While it is quite common these days to encounter a standing ovation at the end of an evening in the...