5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Candide Owen Davies 25/06/2023 Described in the programme by the director as “a hot mess of a piece”, Bernstein's Candide has had a chequered history since it first played in New Yo...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Magic Flute Owen Davies 15/03/2023 Mozart's Magic Flute is one of those operas that brings out extreme views amongst opera lovers. For some it's a trivial bit of pantomime redeemed by s...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Cherry Town Moscow Owen Davies 14/10/2022 WNO Youth Opera has been tasked with bringing this strange operetta by Shostakovich to life. First performed in 1959 near the end of a career that had...
Carmen Owen Davies 05/03/2020 This splendid production of Carmen shows off the substantial talents of the Welsh National Opera team at their best. It is an opera that all too often...
The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2020 Some say that Mozart’s revolutionary opera, The Marriage of Figaro, should really be called The Marriage of Susanna. Welsh National Opera’s enjoyable ...
Hedda Gabler Marine Furet 28/10/2019 At the beginning of the Sherman Theatre’s new production of Hedda Gabler, Hedda (Heledd Gwynn) is alone on stage, her back turned to us. Her husband G...
On Bear Ridge Marine Furet 28/09/2019 Welsh playwright Ed Thomas’s return to the stage fifteen years after his previous creation opens in memorably unceremonious fashion. In fact, On Bear ...
Crave Marine Furet 07/05/2019 In Crave, four unnamed voices (C, M, B, and A) echo without ever quite responding to each other. Occasionally lines latch onto each other, word patter...
Shooting Rabbits Marine Furet 03/05/2019 Shooting Rabbits is not a particularly plot-driven play, yet I feel hard put to give you, reader, a very clear idea of its content without spoiling so...
The Taming of the Shrew Marine Furet 08/03/2019 Jo Clifford’s vital re-envisioning of The Taming of the Shrew examines the darker underbelly of current explorations of gender and sexuality. In an es...
