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37 minutes ago · Johan Persson) descending at play's end on the men in her family in Jeremy Herrin's West End revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night, a ghostly relic almost passive-aggressive in her anguish. Or the astonishing Lesley Manville clambering across the body of Mark Strong in Robert Icke's dazzling reclamation of Oedipus, as if laying claim to him on multiple fronts - as is of course borne out in ...
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The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world Heather Neill Friday, 20 December 2024 Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly even fireworks - and all at a ...
Best of 2024: Opera
2 hours ago · Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian let’s-make-an-opera, while Irish National Opera gave us a world-class Salome, a Vivaldi rarity strongly cast, a Rigoletto featuring my favourite performance from a Manchester-born Irish-Iranian soprano, and the perfect …
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Albums of the Year 2024: Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place Sebastian Scotney Monday, 16 December 2024 Kenny Barron’s Beyond This Place is glorious. Whereas I’ve found some of the more talked-about albums of 2024 either been uneven or unfocused – as if attracting debate is more important than just setting out to make a great album – everything just works so well here.
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The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world Heather Neill Friday, 20 December 2024 . Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly even fireworks - and all at a ...
Best of 2024: Film
1 day ago · The usual perverse list unfolds. Two beautifully made and thought-provoking films about emigration, an intermittently brilliant exploration of attitudes to disfigurement, a helter-skelter drama about a sex worker, a Jewish romance that everyone I recommended it to hated, two post-colonial documentaries made with extraordinary skill, a heart-stopping childhood drama. and the first opera to be ...
The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney …
Dec 20, 2024 · Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly even fireworks - and all at a time when the masque was the most fashionable theatre form. The Tempest, written especially for the venue, includes a masque and has masque-like properties throughout.
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The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera review - three-headed monster feels baggier than ever David Nice Friday, 08 November 2024 . Having all but sunk one seemingly unassailable o péra comique, Bizet’s Carmen, director Damiano Michieletto goes some way to helping out another with so many problems.Not far enough, alas, but the chosen edition, with its reams of recitative (mostly not by Offenbach ...
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Messiah, Wild Arts, Chichester Cathedral review - a dynamic battle between revelatory light and Stygian gloom Rachel Halliburton Wednesday, 18 December 2024 . The Wild Arts Ensemble was founded by Orlando Jopling in 2022 to create a dynamic, pared-back style of performance in which, as he put it, the “costumes, set and props… can be packed up into a couple of suitcases that we can take ...
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