REVIEW: Dracapella
Reading Time: 2 minutesDracapella is a wildly entertaining show, with scarcely a moment passing without raucous laughter from the audience.
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REVIEW: Fireside Tales
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not a bad idea to be invited to a “fireside” in Wembley on a freezing, rainy Sunday morning. And although there’s no real fire in Punchdrunk Enrichment Wembley, imagination and community make up for it.
REVIEW: Glyndeborne’s Messiah at Royal Albert Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesTransferred for one night only from Glyndebourne’s autumn season to the Royal Albert Hall, this Messiah under Aidan Oliver and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia (leader Richard Milone), with the Glyndebourne Chorus and soloists Soraya Mafi, Claire Barnett-Jones, James Way and James Platt, offered a strikingly intimate reading of Handel’s oratorio in a resolutely non-intimate space.
REVIEW: The Boline Inn
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“A well realised aesthetic vision overcrowds the show’s insightful narrative”
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: Swing Into Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis orchestra will definitely prepare you for the holidays. Any opportunity to go to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is a treat and watching The Down For The Count Swing Orchestra was no exception. This collective return…
REVIEW: Beyond Van Gogh
Reading Time: 2 minutesBeyond Van Gogh promises an immersive journey into the mind of a genius, and to be fair, it does deliver moments of genuine charm.
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story
Reading Time: 2 minutesPantomimes are a cultural staple in the UK, marking the lead up to Christmas with family inclusive interactive theatre. In Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story, that family-friendly appeal is similarly broad, perhaps though for a different kind of family.
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is there to say about Beauty and the Beast that has not been said before? A classic fairy tale that everyone from Disney-film-watching-age up knows the story beats to, it takes a brave artistic team with drive and a vision to retell it in a refreshing way to justify the new direction, and to also retell it in a way that’s close enough to the original to stay faithful to the themes of transformation, love, and redemption.