BOOK REVIEW The Sleeping Beauties Tim Hochstrasser 23/03/2024 4478‘Sleeping Beauties’ is Lucy Ashe’s second novel, coming swiftly after ‘Clara & Olivia’, reviewed here last year. It explores similar...
Reviewer's Rating Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Tim Hochstrasser 23/03/2024 780When you hear some of the more exotic instruments of the orchestra tuning up and practising motifs in the pit,...
Reviewer's Rating The Barber of Seville Tim Hochstrasser 22/03/2024 808With such a familiar opera as ‘The Barber of Seville’ a lot depends on the particular take of the director....
Reviewer's Rating Uncle Vanya Tim Hochstrasser 18/03/2024 899After Andrew Scott’s recent, virtuosic solo-take on this play, it is actually something of a relief to see a samovar...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Poets Live: Hopkins & Bridges Tim Hochstrasser 15/03/2024 903‘Dead Poets Live’ offers an occasional series of retrospectives on the work of distinguished poets where the focus is very...
Reviewer's Rating The Rake’s Progress Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2024 885English Touring Opera are presenting ‘Manon Lescaut’ and ‘The Rake’s Progress’ this year, beginning their tour in the shabby chic...
Reviewer's Rating Marry Me A Little Tim Hochstrasser 03/03/2024 746‘Marry Me A Little’ is a compilation of ‘trunk’ songs from the Sondheim catalogue that was put together as long...
Reviewer's Rating Stitches Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2024 778Often the most inward themes in drama are mightily enhanced by an intimate setting where the performer is only a...
Reviewer's Rating Stop Trying to Look at my Dick! Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2024 1157From 6th to 10th February the Golden Goose Theatre down in Camberwell is showcasing the Kaleidescope Festival which provides an...
Reviewer's Rating Northanger Abbey Tim Hochstrasser 31/01/2024 1001Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ was her first novel, though not the first to be published. While revised later, it lacks...
