reviewer's rating Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 30/07/2019Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. They found fame in 1966 at the hands of...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Gillian Russo 30/07/2019When I learned the show’s premise, I was originally skeptical that watching competitive solitaire players square off could be as...
Reviewer's Rating Queen of Hearts Dylan Hoffman 30/07/2019It has become such a rote exercise for directors and choreographers to plunder Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic that one would...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 29/07/2019When you enter the performance hall of the Gilgamesh Belleville, you are welcomed by the organiser of the wedding: “Come...
Reviewer's Rating La Brèche (The MacAlpine Spillway) Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 29/07/2019Tommy Milliot, the young French director and founder of the Man Haast company, is particularly interested in directing plays by...
Reviewer's Rating 4.48 Psychose Marie Communal 28/07/2019On 20th February 1999, Sarah Kane committed suicide. This desperate act was announced with gallows humour in her last play:...
Reviewer's Rating Une vie sur mesure (A tailor-made life) Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 27/07/2019It is 10:30 AM in Avignon. At this time of the morning, the city is still calm. But at the...
Reviewer's Rating Outwitting the Devil Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 27/07/2019At the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des papes, Akram Khan presents a great choreography directly inspired by the Epic...
Reviewer's rating Il Segreto di Susanna & Iolanta — Double Bill Shadi Seifouri 26/07/2019Giving voice to two overlooked operas in this double-billed programme, Opera Holland Park’s 2019 summer season is in its penultimate...
Reviewer's rating Pericles, Prince of Tyre Mel Cooper 26/07/2019If you’ve never experienced the kind of performance akin to what Shakespeare must have encountered the first time he attended...
