Paved With Gold and Ashes Emma Burnell 12/08/2023Paved With Gold and Ashes is a short piece, but it packs more into its run than you might imagine....
Reviewer’s Rating Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a...
Reviewer's Rating Trouble in Tahiti Tim Hochstrasser 11/08/2023‘Trouble in Tahiti’ is a good fit for scheduling at Grimeborn. A not-so-well-known one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein deserves another...
Reviewer's Rating The Sphere of Light Tim Hochstrasser 08/08/2023Hever Castle, childhood home of Ann Boleyn, hosts a theatre festival every year, and it therefore is a natural ambience...
Reviewer's Rating Romeo and Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 07/08/2023I am fortunate to have seen Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet three times now – back in 2019 for the...
24 (Day): The measure of my dreams Emma Burnell 05/08/2023I was really excited by the idea of this play. I grew up close to the area it’s set in....
Reviewer's rating Itch Owen Davies 04/08/2023Opera Holland Park (OHP) has commissioned Jonathan Dove, working with his regular librettist Alasdair Middleton, to write an opera based...
Reviewer's Rating Opera in Song – Vissi d’Arte Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2023At the centre of Opera Holland Park’s season each year now is a charming and absorbing three-concert interlude that explores...
Reviewer's Rating No For An Answer Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2023‘There are Bernsteins and Blitzsteins, And flop Steins and hit Steins’, sings Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’. Well, we all know...
Skin Jad Adams 02/08/2023Skin opens with two sisters chatting on stage about Sadie’s cancer, and even laughing about it. Sadie, in her early...
