Richard Jones’s production of La bohème has become the poster child of London’s Covent Garden. Studded with festive tropes of Parisian fantasy: fallin...
If the countless works of the duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill have one striking feature, it is their ability to mask immense social criticism throug...
Translations, adaptations and reworkings of the mythology of the Greco-Roman World are a
staple part of the history of Western European culture, hold...
‘I am trapped in a myth that is not mine’, says a jaded Eurydice. This is perhaps the line that captures best the essence of this adaptation and reint...
We all know – or think we do – what happened on 5th November 1605 – ‘Gunpowder, treason and plot!’ In this streamed concert performance of the core of...
The Home Secretary, the Foreign Secretary, and the Lord Chamberlain have all be found hanging in their own chambers. Each victim died on their birthda...
As George Orwell once wrote, ‘the Northerner has “grit”, he is … democratic; the Southerner is snobbish, effeminate and lazy’. Whilst nuanced here, th...
This gripping 60-minute monologue deals with the death in custody of a young black man. It's a strange mixture of comedy, tragedy, and righteous anger...
It’s quite some achievement to take a show that ran at Leicester’s Curve back in 2019 as one conceived to be mounted on a full stage with a set, props...
‘Hymn’ is book-ended by two funeral orations but is much more of a hymn to love than anything churchy. In this case, the love is fraternal, neither ph...
