Reviewer's rating L’Egisto Owen Davies 13/06/2021Hampstead Garden Opera has returned to the stage with a production of a rarely-performed baroque opera from 1643 by Francesco...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Now streamed online for free. see below Mel Cooper 12/06/2021BRECHTIAN WAGNER It was a double privilege to be invited to see Wagner’s DIE WALKÜRE in a semi-staged production at...
Reviewer's Rating Here Come the Boys Grace Creaton-Barber 29/05/2021An electric evening of high-energy, high-impact, high-calibre dance. To summarise: fab-u-lous! A view that I’m sure may be shared by...
Reviewer's rating Talking Gods – Aphrodite and Icarus Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2021Translations, adaptations and reworkings of the mythology of the Greco-Roman World are a staple part of the history of Western...
Reviewer's rating Talking Gods II – Orpheus Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/04/2021‘I am trapped in a myth that is not mine’, says a jaded Eurydice. This is perhaps the line that...
Reviewer's rating Treason – The Musical Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2021We all know – or think we do – what happened on 5th November 1605 – ‘Gunpowder, treason and plot!’...
Reviewer's rating Sherlock Holmes – The Case of the Hung Parliament Henry Tubb (age 15) 08/03/2021The Home Secretary, the Foreign Secretary, and the Lord Chamberlain have all be found hanging in their own chambers. Each...
Reviewer's Rating The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Grace Creaton-Barber 28/02/2021As George Orwell once wrote, ‘the Northerner has “grit”, he is … democratic; the Southerner is snobbish, effeminate and lazy’....
Reviewer's rating Typical Owen Davies 25/02/2021This gripping 60-minute monologue deals with the death in custody of a young black man. It’s a strange mixture of...
Reviewer's rating The Colour Purple – The Musical Richard Voyce 19/02/2021It’s quite some achievement to take a show that ran at Leicester’s Curve back in 2019 as one conceived to...
