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Flying Dutchman

Owen Davies 396
This opera — the first of Wagner’s music dramas to reach the classic repertoire — is something of an enigma....

1536

Olivia Hurton 680
Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...

Noughts and Crosses

Sara Tiron 501
At Hackney Empire, a theatre whose setting makes questions of race, class, and belonging feel immediate rather than abstract, Pilot...

Astoria

Katerina Gotsi 519
Musical theatre has always enjoyed great popularity with Athenian audiences; truly accomplished musical productions, however, are comparatively rare. The iconic...

A Night of Gogol

Sofia Moran 391
Trying to explain Basset Theatre Company’s Gogol-inspired immersive dining experience without sounding slightly delirious is difficult. Somewhere between the terrace...

Escaped Alone

Olivia Hurton 475
Caryl Churchill is the doyenne of theatrical experimentalism. Her plays shapeshift and surprise, dismantling artistic structures to prompt ideas about...

The Marriage of Figaro

Ziyu Zhang 489
Accessibility is the defining ambition of the revival of Sir Thomas Allen’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. The English-language...

The Wasp

Wilder Gutterson 485
The Wasp is a taut two-hander about former schoolmates who meet again after years apart. Originally produced in 2015 at...