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Further Than the Furthest Thing

Strikingly set in the round and adhering to a stylised minimalist set design, this revival of Zinnie Harris’ hit play is truly thought provoking. A th...
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Macbeth

For a play which is famously bad luck among actors (they aren’t even supposed to speak its name) Flabbergast Theatre show some pluck in taking on this...
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The Egyptians

While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition, how often do we stop to think abou...
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The Shawshank Redemption

I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is not quite his usual kind of horro story; and n...
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The Tempest

If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one of those rare productions that I believe ...
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HEX

When the protagonist of our story, an outcast fairy called ‘Fairy’, meets an odd man in the forest one day, she is immediately swept up in an ordeal w...
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Othello

I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten years have passed since that...
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The Makropulos Affair

The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a brilliant, flawless pres...
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La Bohème

The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden revived by Caroline Chaney is tradition...
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Alcina

On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’ arias where the opening section repeats ...