Reviews
THEATRE REVIEW: Shun-kin, Complicite at Barbican
'Shun-Kin', Simon McBurney’s latest show for Complicite at the Barbican, is the Japanese story of servant Sasuke’s masochistic love for…
THEATRE REVIEW: Mrs Affleck, National Theatre
If Ibsen is for all time then it seems an odd decision to plonk him so precisely in one historical…
THEATRE REVIEW: Tons of Money, Touring
In the hands of these skilled actors, the play succeeds in reaching a level of quality which from lesser performers…
THEATRE REVIEW: Plonter, The Pit
The play is a tangle in several senses: it is an ensemble piece performed in Arabic and Hebrew with English…
THEATRE REVIEW: Primary Voices, Quicksilver Theatre
Surreal, funny, entertaining, imaginative - Primary Voices gives its audience an exclusive look into the minds of young Londoners, and…
OPERA REVIEW: Die tote Stadt, The Royal Opera
Korngold’s score, expertly conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, is an intoxicating web of mournful longing and nostalgia: a dead city made…
THEATRE REVIEW: A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is littered with arcane references to obscure concepts and ideas with which a modern audience may…
THEATRE REVIEW: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, National Theatre
Mere minutes after the start of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre,…
DANCE REVIEW: Les Sept Planches de la Ruse
Exotic in its discipline, this show is an extended and unusual object animation using the brushstrokes of Beijing opera.
THEATRE REVIEW: Armature of the Absolute
This is punk theatre at its best. Marseille-based marionette circus Buchinger's Boot is a glorious, gluttonous junkyard of scavenged paraphernalia…