Reviews
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW: Unordinary People - Royal Albert Hall
“A celebration of today’s multicultural, multi-class and multi-ageist British youth" - it manages to make one want to have been…
OPERA REVIEW: Il trovatore, Royal Opera House
There was a great deal to cheer over: conductor Carlo Rizzi and Dmitri Hvorstovsky as villain Count di Luna both…
THEATRE REVIEW: Death and the Kings Horseman, National Theatre
Director Rufus Norris spent considerable time rehearsing in Oyo and he and choreographer Javier DeFrutos make full use of Yoruba…
THEATRE REVIEW: The Winters Tale, Royal Shakespeare Company
David Farr’s RSC production, currently at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, is a play of two halves. Greg Hicks gives…
THEATRE REVIEW: Billy Twinkle, Requiem for a Golden Boy
Ronnie Burkett is a Canadian master marionettiste who writes, directs, builds all the puppets and sets for and does all…
THEATRE REVIEW: The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company
One of the reasons why Shakespeare’s plays have remained so attractive to modern audiences is the vast array of possibilities…
THEATRE REVIEW: Deep Cut, The Tricycle Theatre
A simple living room set and the confessional, conversational tone of the writing combine to achieve something that is beyond…
THEATRE REVIEW: Burnt by the Sun, National Theatre
Chekhov’s name is mentioned in the dialogue and serves to underpin a particularly Russian form of nostalgia that could be…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Artist Rooms, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Despite the sign there are no paths, only grassed banks and ramps, so this interactive sculpture is only good until…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Four Scottish Painters, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
This spring the Dean is showing the works of four Scottish painters: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, John Bellany, Alan Davie and Anne…