Reviewer's Rating Alexandra Waierstall — And here we meet Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2018The relationship between text and dance is at once both tense and potentially rewarding to each. Dance can illustrate or...
Reviewer's Rating Mamzer Bastard Rivka Jacobson 17/06/2018Mamzer Bastard, a ninety-minute opera by the 29-year-old Israeli composer, Na’ama Zisser, is an impressive achievement. The title is a...
Reviewer's Rating The Seagull Kezia Niman 15/06/2018Applying a fresh lick of paint to any Old Master is a tall order. Taller still when the Old Master...
Reviewer's Rating 84 Charing Cross Road Roger Mortimer 15/06/2018There are certain things Amazon just can’t do for you, not even with Prime membership. I can’t imagine, for example,...
Reviewer's Rating Machinal Nicholas Potter 15/06/2018Machinal is an episodic narrative about events leading up to a murder. A young typist (Emily Berrington) is made an...
Reviewer's Rating Lohengrin Rivka Jacobson 14/06/2018Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin first premiered in the provincial city Weimar on 28 August 1850. The date is crucial, as German...
Reviewer's Rating The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Agnes Carrington-Windo 13/06/2018Set in present-day Nigeria, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is a vibrant and energetic exploration of gender politics...
Reviewer's Rating Portraits in Otherness Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2018As a primarily non-verbal creative medium dance is always a challenge to the reviewer trying to find suitable words that...
Reviewer's Rating San Domino Kezia Niman 09/06/2018The time: 1939, the place: Mussolini’s Italy, the crime: homosexuality. A group of gay men from Catania are exiled to...
Reviewer's Rating Utility Sarah Gibbs 06/06/2018George Orwell begins his essay “My Country Right or Left” by stating, “Contrary to popular belief, the past was not...