Turning The Screw Hal Wooliscroft 22/02/2024The most frustrating thing about watching Turning the Screw are the moments when it is almost good. When it manages...
Reviewer's rating Tosca Josi Steinfeld 09/02/2024Puccini set Sardou’s play La Tosca to music after Sarah Bernhadt performed it in French, despite never understanding a word....
Reviewer's rating Dido And Aeneas Josi Steinfeld 06/02/2024When American superstar mezzo Joyce DiDonato comes to town, it is always a hot ticket. This time she returns with...
100 Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell Jad Adams 06/02/2024Jeffrey Bernard is locked in the Coach and Horses pub, having ‘fallen asleep on the bog’ when last orders were...
Tess Julie Peakman 01/02/2024A dramatic opening of a young woman climbing a scaffold to be hanged highlights the essence of Thomas Hardy’s Tess...
Reviewer's Rating Northanger Abbey Tim Hochstrasser 31/01/2024Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ was her first novel, though not the first to be published. While revised later, it lacks...
Reviewer's Rating Kin Tim Hochstrasser 18/01/2024‘Kin’ is the eighth production by the physical theatre comapny Gecko, led by Amit Lahav. They are well known for...
80 The Sex Lives of Puppets Jad Adams 06/01/2024From pet names for genitals to talk of venereal diseases killing the moment, The Sex Lives of Puppets constantly veers...
60 Kagami Julie Peakman 05/01/2024Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer and pianist who died in 2023. Yet here he is playing on a stately...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Tim Hochstrasser 29/12/2023Antic Disposition have gained a distinguished reputation for their adaptation of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, performed now for a decade...