Reviewer's rating The Lost Thing Blake Gordon Plante 23/12/2019Accessible and heart-felt, The Lost Thing is a beautiful adaptation of Shaun Tan’s picture book of the same title, by...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Teddy Hempstead 20/12/2019As El Padre used to say, there are two things to see at an opera. The first is the opera...
Reviewer's rating A Kind of People Owen Davies 13/12/2019This is a strange and fascinating play – part sitcom, part agitprop, part tragedy. It deals with white racism against...
Reviewer's rating Otello Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2019When Bernard Shaw wrote that ‘Othello’ was ‘a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera’, he was...
Reviewer's Rating Cinderella Richard McKee 11/12/2019“The fairy godmother of all pantomimes” is what the blurb says, and no doubt about it, that’s absolutely right! Cinderella...
Reviewer's Rating Candida Tim Hochstrasser 11/12/2019Why is Bernard Shaw now so rarely performed? At the time of his death in 1950 he was considered the...
Reviewer's Rating Uncle Vanya Tim Hochstrasser 11/12/2019When you learn that a performance of this play will only last a little over an hour it is a...
Reviewer's Rating Death in Venice Tim Hochstrasser 10/12/2019This opera is one where the biographical context of the composer is more than usually relevant. With his health failing...
Reviewer's Rating Touching the Void Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2019This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Joe Simpson’s remarkable memoir, Touching the Void, later made into...
Reviewer's Rating The Fairytale Revolution Richard McKee 09/12/2019This is not a traditional pantomime. There is no Dame or Principal Boy. In fact, all the boys are girls....
