REVIEW: Dada Masilo’s Hamlet
Reading Time: 2 minutesOccasionally flawed, frequently compelling, most electrifying when it abandons its stated premise for something richer
Lauren Aitken
REVIEW: Landscapes at Sadler’s Well East
Reading Time: 2 minutesThree works explore how light and movement can reshape the stage, turning the theatre into a series of fleeting, self-contained worlds. Russell Maliphant has always been fascinated by space — not simply the stage as a physical…
REVIEW: Ballet Icons Gala
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnniversary galas should invite reflection, or at least a vague sense of what has come before. The 20th anniversary Ballet Icons Gala, however, felt curiously unstructured: a sequence of celebrated pas de deux and contemporary fragments assembled without a clear thematic thread.
REVIEW: The Snowman at the Peacock Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesColourful, magical and heart-warming, The Snowman continues to charm new generations Presented by Birmingham Repertory at the Peacock Theatre, this stage adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ book The Snowman (and the beloved 1982 animated film it inspired) remains what it has long…
REVIEW: Ballet Black Shadows
Reading Time: 2 minutesBallet Black: SHADOWS is a production split cleanly down the middle - two halves, two sharply contrasting moods. It’s an evening that begins tentatively and ends in gleeful, macabre triumph.