Category Art

REVIEW: Nutcracker

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Traditional Festive Fun” The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Nutcracker was not a performance of the famous ballet. Instead the piece chose to highlight the music and storytelling of the show, putting a spotlight on the musicians who are often tucked…

REVIEW: Dancing Shoes

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Hilarious and Heartwarming – Without Ever Pulling Its Punches” Dancing Shoes isn’t quite the play you might expect from its title. The words ‘dancing shoes’ suggest something light and playfully funny, and certainly not a story about…

REVIEW: The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella at Southbank Centre

Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…