Reviewer's Rating Peter Pan In Scarlet Mel Cooper 19/08/2016eter Pan in Scarlet is the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Set in the late 1920s, that...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Mel Cooper 02/08/2016s is now traditional, the Longborough Opera Festival is ending its current season at its home base with a production...
Reviewer's Rating Save The Last Dance For Me Mel Cooper 20/07/2016o here’s the problem. Compilation musicals based on songs of an earlier era are as old as Talking Films. On...
Reviewer's Rating CLD: The Real Lewis Carroll Mel Cooper 19/07/2016xford in the summer is full of “Alternative” Theatre of various sorts, sometimes amateur, sometimes low key professional – students...
Reviewer's Rating Le Nozze di Figaro Mel Cooper 03/07/2016ou do not go to Longborough for hugely glamorous productions. A bit like Bayreuth after WWII, the approach is highly...
Reviewer's Rating Jenufa Mel Cooper 24/06/2016his is one time when David Alden got it very right. HIs award-winning Jenufa production, being revived once more, is...
Reviewer's Rating Cymbeline Mel Cooper 22/06/2016guess I have been fortunate with Cymbeline because I have seen a couple of revelatory productions in my time, but...
Reviewer's Rating The Alchemist Mel Cooper 22/06/2016long with Jonson’s Volpone, this is one of the peaks of comic-satiric theatre from the Jacobean era and the RSC...
Reviewer's Rating Tannhäuser Mel Cooper 21/06/2016annhäuser is one of the less performed of the Wagner operas, usually; but on the evidence of this production at...
Reviewer's Rating Clybourne Park Mel Cooper 19/05/2016ruce Norris had a great success with his play Clybourne Park in American and in the UK when it was...