Reviewer's rating Orfeo and Zanetto Double Bill Owen Davies 08/09/2021Barefoot Opera brought an unusual double bill to Grimeborn at the Arcola. They paired a shortened version of Gluck’s Orfeo...
Reviewer's rating Invisible Me Richard McKee 04/09/2021Sex in the Sixties? Well, that was the decade of sexual liberation (though it rather passed your reviewer by). But...
Reviewer's rating Rockets and Blue Lights Owen Davies 04/09/2021This fascinating and challenging play by Winsome Pinnock starts from ideas stimulated by two paintings by JMW Turner. The first...
Reviewer's rating 13 Musical Rivka Jacobson 03/09/2021This is an energetic and joyous production of Jason Robert Brown’s 13 (Musical). The entire cast and band consists of teenagers. The...
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...
