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...
Reviewer's rating The View Upstairs Richard Voyce 26/07/2019Get the first fifteen minutes of a show right, and the audience will go anywhere you lead them. Get it...
War and Peace Shadi Seifouri 25/07/2019Celebrated as one of the greatest contributions to the literary canon, Prokofiev’s lauded adaptation of Tolstoy’s 1869 novel War and...
The Tempest Catherine Flutsch 24/07/2019Oxford’s much-loved professional theatre company, Creation Theatre, has a well-deserved reputation for taking risks in the interests of telling a...
Reviewer's Rating Die Fledermaus Owen Davies 24/07/2019The Revenge of the Bat is a better title for this insubstantial piece of Viennese musical farce. Its only claim...
