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  • Joined: December 7, 2024
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REVIEW: The Cannoneer

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn essential reclamation of feminist Italian patriotism, performed by an accomplished storyteller Siliva Manazzone makes it very clear we are all too ignorant about two things: The history of the three wars leading up to the reunification…

REVIEW: Flamenc Oh!!

Flamenc Oh!! Es una nueva creación de la compañía Yllana en co-producción con el Sadler’s Wells de Londres. Un espectáculo que une con máximo rigor y calidad el arte del flamenco con la comedia gestual, sello inconfundible de la prestigiosa compañía, para crear un show único, innovador, y emocionante, que acerca de una manera original el arte del flamenco a un público internacional de todas las edades. fotografo Pablo Lorente

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production manages to successfully blend the technical brilliance of flamenco with the physical comedy of pantomime and the Spanish passion of telenovela drama. Flamenc Oh!! tells the tale of a family whose story feels as much in keeping thematically with any of Federico García Lorca’s masterpieces.

REVIEW: Sweet Victory

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe American Revolutionary War doesn’t quite hit the British psyche like it does the American’s. It’s more of a footnote before the Victorian age of industry, empire and Dickensian poverty. Probably because we lost. Nevertheless, writer-director Elise Marra has taken a stab at this period of history and condensed it into an idiosyncratic 60 minute two-hander.

REVIEW: The Tempest

© Julian Guidera

Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever wanted to see Shakespeare performed on a full size Elizabethan ship? If so then this show is for you. Adapted into a sixty minute abridged version, The Tempest has been re-imagined into a site-specific (more probably site-sympathetic) promenade performance for all the ages. Just make sure you’ve got good knees and a knack for ladders.

FEATURE: The Revenant

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs much a stress-test for the viewers as the characters, this brutal depiction of life in the American Frontier is a spectacular presentation of acting and cinematography Initially released in 2015 and now showing at BFI IMAX,…

REVIEW: Million Dollar Quartet 

Reading Time: 3 minutesSeventy years ago on the 4th December 1956, four of the most popular musicians of their day stumbled quite accidentally into an impromptu jam session at Sun Records’ studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins hung out for one day only and it became known as the Million Dollar Quartet. Backed up by their inimitable producer Sam Philips, whose ear for rock n roll was clearly well tuned, here we find ourselves a concept for a jukebox musical.