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Tag Archives: 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.

The Master Builder, Ibsen, The Old Vic SE1

The Master Builder, Halvard Solness, is universally acknowledged by his townsfolk as a lucky man: self-made and supremely successful in business, his good fortune is not due to skill or…

February 4, 2016 in Theatre.

Magic in its modernism: Rachel Cusk’s marvellous new Medea for the Almeida GREEKS season

“I can unmake you the same way I made you. I write the story, remember?” Rachel Cusk’s brilliant vision of Euripides’ Medea for the Almeida transforms the barbarian witch into…

October 1, 2015 in Greek Tragedy.

Ding, dong, the Sphinx is dead: Mark Antony Turnage’s Greek at ROH Linbury

Sophocles in the 1980s: Mark Antony Turnage shapes Berkoff’s contemporary East End vision of Oedipus under Thatcherism – via Tufnell Park, football crowds and a very sinister café – into…

October 21, 2013 in Opera.

Go down to the woods today: Pelléas et Mélisande at Grimeborn

“She was a poor, mysterious little creature, just like anyone else…” When the ageing Prince Golaud finds the beautiful Mélisande crying beside a well in the forest, he is instantly…

August 21, 2013 in Opera.

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