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...
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
Manami Suzuki – debut London recital Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026Manami Suzuki comes to London as the first Japanese and the first female winner of the Hamamatsu International Piano Festival. ...
Tell Me Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026When I am in Tate Modern I often stand in front of a painting by Mondrian and experiment with my...
BBC Symphony Orchestra: From Hamlet to Joseph Phibbs Tim Hochstrasser 19/01/2026With two tone poems inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a freshly-minted cello concerto, and a rarely performed suite by Richard Strauss,...