Hand To Mouth To – Dark Nights Hafiza Butt 01/10/2026 69The longer you live, the more likely you are to face and contain some form of tragedy. Early onset tragedies...
The School for Wives Sara Tiron 16/09/2026 135Molière’s The School for Wives is built around an irresistibly comic premise. Arnolphe, terrified of being cuckolded, has raised the...
The Children Lennon Hu 13/09/2026 151Nuclear power can be both violent and passive: fission or decay. We humans can control the violence; nuclear power plants...
Kimberly Akimbo Tim Hochstrasser 12/09/2026 200It might seem an odd place to begin a review, but the interview in the programme that accompanies Kimberly Akimbo...
The Story Olivia Hurton 06/09/2026 260Today the news is drama. Newspapers have taken to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to dispense stories via...
Frankenstein Richard Voyce 29/08/2026 355Frankenstein It’s a sad fact of life that, even though I’m writing up this review of the BYMT’s Frankenstein on...
L’Occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a Thief) Josi Steinfeld 24/08/2026 422L’Occasione fa il ladro is the fourth of five one-act operas the 20-year-old Rossini composed for Venice in 1812, hurriedly...
La Scala Di Seta (The Silken Ladder) Josi Steinfeld 23/08/2026 434Rossini was 20 when La scala di seta premiered in 1812 — a remarkable year in which he composed five...
The Singer Ziyu Zhang 14/08/2026 305The Singer opens up a thrilling new perspective on what a singer is, and on how a song can be...
Dido and Aeneas Owen Davies 13/08/2026 395Dido and Aeneas is Purcell’s only opera. Others, like King Arthur and The Fairy-Queen, though musically superb, are appropriately labelled...
