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Tag Archives: Charing Cross Theatre

THE RINSE CYCLE Charing Cross Theatre, WC2 – for TheatreCat

Some people get terribly, passionately serious about Wagner. This shouldn’t be a problem: truly great music of all kinds tends to attract obsessive adulation, especially whenever the artist is a…

February 28, 2016 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Unexpected Opera’s The Rinse Cycle

“A Ring Cycle set in a launderette? Well, I’ve seen weirder productions…”  Unexpected Opera’s approachable and slick reduction of Wagner’s epic starts on a characteristically unstuffy note, and proceeds to…

February 23, 2016 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Greasepaint and glamour: a new production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado

The reason The Mikado can move us, despite all its apparent silliness, is that some of its humour is in fact presciently serious at heart. With a healthy dash of camp, glamour, greasepaint…

December 3, 2014 in Gilbert & Sullivan.

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