Reviewer's Rating Daffodils (A Play With Songs) Pauline Flannery 23/08/2016affodils at the Traverse follows writer Rochelle Bright’s parents as they meet at the same spot as her grandparents: a...
Reviewer's Rating Love Lies and Taxidermy Pauline Flannery 23/08/2016ove Lies and Taxidermy is the best of titles. It’s also a cracking good yarn and beautifully executed in a...
Reviewer's Rating Le Nozze di Figaro Owen Davies 22/08/2016ozart’s Marriage of Figaro returns to the Sussex opera house in the production first put together by director Michael Grandage...
Reviewer's Rating Tristan und Isolde Tony Cooper 22/08/2016his production of Tristan und Isolde by Katharina Wagner first saw the light of day at last year’s festival immediately...
Reviewer's Rating The Threepenny Opera Nicholas Potter 22/08/2016orris’s production of The Threepenny Opera is fantastically ugly: Brecht’s London is full of vagrants and harlots, a truly Dickensian...
Reviewer's Rating Milk Marine Furet 21/08/2016ilk, Ross Dunsmore’s new play produced by the Traverse Theatre Company, explores the gamut of affective and sexual anxieties through...
Reviewer's Rating Diary Of A Madman Marine Furet 21/08/2016Diary of a Madman opens on a chat between two teenage girls. It is a conversation about boys, losing your...
Reviewer's Rating BBC Proms: The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 21/08/2016ithout a doubt, the BBC Prom performance on 19 August 2016 of janacek’s extraordinary opera The Makropulos Affair was a...
Reviewer's Rating Parsifal Tony Cooper 20/08/2016pecifically written for the Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage)...
Reviewer's Rating Der Fliegende Holländer Tony Cooper 20/08/2016agner’s first mature opera written in 1841, Der fliegende Holländer is directed with great flair and imagination by the German...