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UK's First Laureate of Story-Telling
According to the Federation of European Story Telling (F.E.S.T.) since the early eighties storytelling is experiencing a renaissance all over…
Mikhailovsky Ballet open at the Coliseum
The Mikhailovsky Ballet from St Petersburg return to London's biggest theatre, the London Coliseum, with a season including two world…
Nic Green's Trilogy at the Barbican
Nic Green’s stirring and very moving Trilogy, at the Barbican last weekend, wears its message firmly on its often naked…
Arabian Nights
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: An adaptation of a classic book for stage or screen is usually greeted with howls of protest…
THEATRE REVIEW - Nation, National Theatre
Terry Pratchett’s Nation, adapted for the Olivier stage at the National Theatre by Mark Ravenhill, is set squarely at the…
Ennio Marchetto: Living Paper Cartoon
SOUTHBANK CENTRE: Ennio Marchetto is a dynamo of a man, and in full flight in his one man show, you…
THEATRE REVIEW - The Fahrenheit Twins, Barbican
I have not read Michael Faber’s The Fahrenheit Twins but seeing Told by an Idiot’s stage version of it in…
THEATRE REVIEW - Pains of Youth, National Theatre
The one thing aphorisms about 'youth' have in common is a consensus that it is good to be young. Not…
THEATRE REVIEW - Architecting, The Pit (Barbican)
Architecting draws heavily on both the film and book of Gone With The Wind. At 150 minutes, it is pretty…
THEATRE REVIEW - Twelfth Night, Courtyard Theatre
Have a bloody good time if it’s designer Robert Jones’ Ilyria in Gregory Doran’s Twelfth Night, currently in the Courtyard…