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,...
In Search of Youkali… Tim Hochstrasser 11/01/2026We think we know the milieu of Kurt Weill – whether the sardonic, witty, cynical and sometimes sentimental world of...
Marcio da Silva on Cosi fan Tutte at the Cockpit Theatre Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2026One of the lessons you quickly learn as a reviewer is that often some of very best original work in...
When We Are Married Tim Hochstrasser 20/12/2025This well-known play is nothing if not a ‘period piece.’ It specificity is as fixed and immovable as the groaning...
Indian Ink Tim Hochstrasser 18/12/2025If The Coast of Utopia is an opera cycle, and Arcadia a symphony with complex counterpoint, then Indian Ink is a...
