REVIEW: EXPÖSED
Reading Time: 2 minutesEXPÖSED is a 21st-century adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s folktale The Emperor’s New Clothes.
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REVIEW: Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime
Reading Time: 2 minutesShenoah Allen really understands his audience. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Brits love an eccentric underdog. Unlike the Americans who love a cocky winner, we love to root for the less-egregious, the self-deprecating, the weird.
REVIEW: ENO’s Cosi fan tutte
Reading Time: 2 minutesENO’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the London Coliseum. ENO (English National Opera ) performs all its operas in English so audiences can understand the drama directly without linguistic barriers.
REVIEW: Saint Joan at the Citizen’s Theatre
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlistering, Bare and Impossible to Ignore Saint Joan, based on George Bernard Shaw’s classic play, comes to the Citizens’ Theatre in a stripped-back, modernised take drawn directly from the unseen screenplay. The play follows the true story…
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: “Wuthering Heights” At BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most talked-about film since Wicked, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights has generated both hype and controversy.
REVIEW: BORDERS: Digital, Political, Emotional
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeteatra’s debut, BORDERS: Digital, Political, Emotional at the Arcola Theatre, is an ambitious and promising first outing, aiming to bridge London and Istanbul through six short plays by competition winners Aine King, Andrew Lawston, Banu Şenel, Salman Siddiqi, Erdoğan Soytürk, and Tamara von Werthern.
REVIEW: Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Neave Trio
Reading Time: 2 minutesKing’s Place continues their “Memory Unwrapped” series with the Neave Trio providing an evening that spans across the Americas. The three composers of the evening paint a theme of home and belonging.
REVIEW: Be My Cabaret
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether attending alone or on a date, Be MY Cabaret offered something for everyone. The show was, as expected, a variety piece, with many different acts all centred around the same theme: love.
REVIEW: Shadowlands
Reading Time: 2 minutesDirected by Rachel Kavanaugh and transferred from its Chichester origins to the Aldwych Theatre, this production explores the late-in-life romance between writer C. S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman with delicacy and emotional precision.