Reviewer's Rating Animal Tim Hochstrasser 24/04/2023 941‘Animal’ opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023 952This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Tim Hochstrasser 21/04/2023 992Given the grim background to this year’s season at ENO it is more than little ironic that the programme has...
Reviewer's Rating Snowflakes Tim Hochstrasser 18/04/2023 1145‘Snowflakes’ is a discomfiting but important new play that first ran at the Old Red Lion a couple of years...
Reviewer's Rating Private Lives Tim Hochstrasser 16/04/2023 1269Each generation reworks Coward’s classic 1930 light comedy in its own image. The last time I saw it was twenty years...
Reviewer's Rating Life is a Dream Tim Hochstrasser 14/04/2023 755Calderón’s ‘Life is a Dream’ (La Vida es Sueño) dates from the second phase of the Golden Age of Spanish...
Reviewer's Rating Akhnaten Tim Hochstrasser 20/03/2023 1020‘Akhnaten’ is the third of Philip Glass’s operas that offer portraits of historical figures significant in the fields of science...
Reviewer's Rating Ballet Black: Pioneers Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2023 841This fresh double-bill from Ballet Black introduces two works – ‘Then or Now’, which had a very brief outing ahead...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Man Walking Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023 921Jake Heggie’s opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that...
Reviewer's Rating Akedah Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023 1078‘Akedah’, which translates as ‘binding’ is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later...
