Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 17/02/2019How can you not love an opera that begins with the hero running on stage pursued by a giant lobster,...
Reviewer’s Rating Rattled Vera Mikusch 17/02/2019Rachel Harper both wrote and performed Rattled based on a true story. Her acting as Em, the main character, is...
reviewer's Rating The Waiting Game Ann Pryor 17/02/2019An unsettling glimpse into the dynamics of a destructive love triangle and its aftereffects, The Waiting Game is a study...
reviewer's rating Berberian Sound Studio Jack Taylor 16/02/2019Sound designers are in the game of manipulation. They exploit our emotional instincts to intensify and control the dramatic experience....
Reviewer's rating The Lady from the Sea Rivka Jacobson 15/02/2019This is a bilingual production, Norwegian and English, of Ibsen’s 1888 play, The Lady From the Sea. A challenge for...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Emily Louizou 13/02/2019The Good Person of Szechwan is one of Bertolt Brecht’s most popular plays. Written in 1941, it is a parable...
Reviewer's Rating The Cherry Orchard Emily Louizou 13/02/2019It is very unique experiencing a play in the language in which it was written, performed in a much more freeing...
Reviewer's Rating Mother’s Field Emily Louizou 13/02/2019The third production that the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre presented at the Barbican this February was a version of Mother’s...
Reviewer's Rating Maverick Colin Macdonald 13/02/2019There’s a particular challenge in trying to portray genius, which consists so much of the ineffable—in the case of Frank...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo in Maschera Shmuel Ben-Tovim 13/02/2019This is one of Verdi’s most neglected of his great operas. However, this production makes the case well for reviving...
