The Inseparables Rivka Jacobson 18/04/2025Grace-Joy Howarth’s adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s posthumously published novella The Inseparables is a poignant, beautifully rendered exploration of love,...
Peter Grimes Owen Davies 08/04/2025At its best, Peter Grimes is one of the most powerful works on the opera stage – and with a...
The Importance of Being Oscar Olivia Hurton 04/04/2025Oscar Wilde once claimed that ‘to become a work of art is the object of living’. No doubt he would...
Bechstein Trio – Fauré, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Tim Hochstrasser 24/03/2025When the Bechstein Hall opened, it did so with a resident Trio in place comprising Emmanuel Despax, Guy Johnston, and...
Retrograde Sofía Danailov Esteban 22/03/2025Retrograde is a play about principle—but also about fear. It asks what it costs to hold onto yourself when the...
The Magic Flute Tim Hochstrasser 07/03/2025In writing opera reviews you often find yourself lamenting the lack of respect or even belief that the director has...
The Score Sofía Danailov Esteban 01/03/2025Some encounters shape history; others shake the very essence of what it means to create. The Score is both. Brian...
Backstroke Nicole Pezza 23/02/2025How much of a mother is there in motherhood? It is a role scrutinized more than any other, burdened with...
Boys from the Blackstuff Ashvin Vasudeva 19/02/2025Boys from the Blackstuff powerfully captures the mood and consequences of economic decline in 1980s Liverpool. The play is unapologetically...
The Passenger Ashvin Vasudeva 18/02/2025The play immerses us into the brutal aftermath of Kristallnacht, the 1938 “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi terror unleashed...
