Reviewer's rating Bach & Sons Tim Hochstrasser 02/09/2021There are often good grounds to be wary of plays centred on the lives of historical figures. The balance between...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Owen Davies 01/09/2021As part of the splendid Grimeborn festival put on every summer by the Arcola, Marcio da Silva’s Ensemble Orquestra has...
Reviewer's rating Paradise Edward Creedy 12/08/2021Kae Tempest’s Paradise is a bold, modern reimagining of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. For a play famed since antiquity for its focus...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Tim Hochstrasser 05/08/2021Back in 2019 Grimeborn began its exploration of Wagner’s Ring cycle with the inspired idea of reviving the reduced-scale version...
Reviewer's rating My Night with Reg Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2021This tragicomedy from 1994 is set in the early 1980s as the impact of HIV/AIDS becomes felt in the London gay...
Reviewer's rating L’amico Fritz Tim Hochstrasser 31/07/2021We are very familiar with Mascagni’s first opera ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, from whose successful shadow he strove in vain to escape...
Reviewer's Rating Hymn Grace Creaton-Barber 30/07/2021This show effervesces with life: heart-warming, hilarious yet painfully realistic throughout… Hymn is a recreation of reality. Hymn follows the...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Tim Hochstrasser 30/07/2021Rather like ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, this opera is fairly indestructible in any production. As environmental awareness has grown so...
Reviewer's rating The Two Character Play Rivka Jacobson 30/07/2021This is an intriguing and brave revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Two Character Play. It is brave because like all...
Reviewer's rating The Game of Love and Chance Emma Burnell 28/07/2021In the programme for The Game of Love and Chance, the first two pages after the basic info is given...
