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WEBThe Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary. British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017) and Marek Horn’s Octopolis (2023), the ...
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WEBElvis Costello and Steve Nieve, Bristol Beacon review - so much more than a retread of the master's hits. Apart from being one of Britain’s greatest songsmiths of the past 50 years, Elvis Costello – from the early adoption of the rock’n’roll King’s first name – has produced a form of naked self-expression, blurred by intricately ...
Here in America, Orange Tree Theatre review - Elia Kazan and …
WEB4 days ago · Pre-Trump 2.0, David Edgar’s new play tells us (at least twice, Edgar not shy of driving home a point) that we can learn from past trauma in order to guide current behaviour. So, 300 million+ Americans are to draw on Stanislavski's Method in the polling booths come November? The memories Edgar conjures are from the 1950s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee went after Hollywood ...
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WEBThe Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary aleks Sierz Thursday, 19 September 2024 . British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017) and Marek Horn’s Octopolis (2023), the trick lies in ...
Coriolanus, Olivier/National Theatre - ambitious staging but the …
WEB2 days ago · Lyndsey Turner's fast-paced production doesn't let the audience engage with its hero. Theatre review by Helen Hawkins The National’s new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier stage. But it has arrived minus a key item: a hero whose end is tragic.
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WEBLa traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a serviceable revival. Alexandra Coghlan Tuesday, 10 September 2024. Later this autumn Richard Eyre’s La Traviata celebrates its 30th birthday. Not bad going for the director’s first ever foray into opera – a genre he admitted holding an “unreasonable prejudice against”.
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WEBRobert Crumb puts America’s racist, misogynist Id on paper with self-implicating obsession. Terry Zwigoff’s 1995 documentary on the underground cartoonist and his even further out family is reissued as the channels for such purging, pungent art have contracted further, zealously policed by Left and Right dreams of moral perfection.
Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - humanity in …
WEB5 days ago · Two homeless men, Vladimir (Whishaw) and Estragon (Msamati), are waiting for a meeting with Godot, who they don’t know and who never appears. Instead he sends a boy to tell them that he will come tomorrow. In the meantime, the pair are visited by Pozzo, a wealthy land owner, and his servant Lucky. As the names of the characters indicate, this ...
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WEBProm 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys. Boyd Tonkin Friday, 13 September 2024. Out of emergencies may come revelations. Sir András Schiff has broken his leg, and we wish him a super-speedy recovery. At the Proms, his promised Art of Fugue will have to wait. Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, a past winner of the Chopin Prize ...
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