The Years Wilder Gutterson 04/08/2024The Years, a presumed autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux traces a woman’s life from girlhood in rural Normandy in the...
Acis and Galatea Owen Davies 03/08/2024First performed in 1718, when Handel was still a relative newcomer to British cultural life, Acis and Galatea is an ‘almost...
Double Bill: Constellations & The Sociable Plover Paul T. Davies 02/08/2024One of the cultural gems of the Essex summer is the Frinton Summer Theatre, the UK’s last remaining weekly rep...
The Grapes of Wrath Wilder Gutterson 01/08/2024John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is among America’s most acclaimed political novels. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for...
Review Rating Fantastically Great Women Julie Peakman 26/07/2024From the first notes of this new musical the diminutive figure of Georgia Grant-Anderson possesses the stage with song and...
Il Segreto di Susanna & Pagliacci Rivka Jacobson 23/07/2024Opera Holland Park’s 2024 season offers a notable double bill with the 2019 revival of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s light-hearted one-act comedy...
Opera in Song 3 – Comedy and Cabaret Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2024For the final instalment of Opera in Song we were taken on a journey through cabaret and comedy songs led by...
Opera in Song 2 Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2024Song cycles come and go in popularity and fashion. One that has slipped from the schedules somewhat in recent years...
Extimité-s Thibault Elie 20/07/2024Summary in French follows the review Extimité-s is a production that is unusual first and foremost for its setting: a...
Reminiscencia (Spanish for Reminiscence) Thibault Elie 20/07/2024Chilean director Malicho Vaca Valenzuela (nicknamed ‘Malicho’ by his grandmother) is performing at the Festival d’Avignon for the first time,...
