Bellringers, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs - mordant comedy …
WEB1 day ago · Daisy Hall's astonishing debut is both darkly funny and deadly serious. Theatre review by Helen Hawkins As hurricanes rip into the American Gulf states with increasing ferocity, Eastern Europe disappears underwater and even the gentle British rain becomes a deluge, the arrival of Daisy Hall’s debut play Bellringers at Hampstead Theatre’s Downstairs space couldn’t be more timely,
French Toast, Riverside Studios review - Racine-inspired satire …
WEB1 day ago · It’s always fun jabbing at the permanently open wound that is Anglo-French relations, now with added snap post-Brexit, its fading, but still frothing, humourless defenders clogging up Twitter and radio phone-ins even today. So it’s probably timely for Gallic-Gang Productions to resurrect Jean (La Cage aux Folles) Poiret’s farce Fefe de Broadway, adapted as French Toast.
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern - adolescent angst ...
WEB1 day ago · Like an angry teenager rejecting everything his parents stand for, American artist Mike Kelley embraced everything most despised by the art world – from popular culture to crafts, and occultism to catholicism – to create what he ironically called “blue collar minimalism”. “An adolescent,” he declared, “is a dysfunctional adult and art is a dysfunctional reality”.
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · A Tupperware of Ashes, National Theatre review - family and food, love and loss. Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losing her car keys; burning rice in the pan; mixing up memories; just plain blank episodes. At various times, she relives distant moments in …
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WEB6 days ago · Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jewel thief. Adam Sweeting Saturday, 05 October 2024. If you’re looking for an advertisement for how crime doesn’t pay, Joan will do very nicely. Written by Anna Symon, this six-part series is based on the memoirs of real-life jewel thief Joan Hannington, whose light-fingered ...
Coriolanus, Olivier/National Theatre - ambitious staging but the …
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Lyndsey Turner's fast-paced production doesn't let the audience engage with its hero. Theatre review by Helen Hawkins The National’s new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier stage. But it has arrived minus a key item: a hero whose end is tragic.
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WEBThe Teacher review - tense West Bank drama. Hugh Barnes Saturday, 28 September 2024. It’s hard not to review the Israeli occupation of Palestine when writing about The Teacher. The political context of this first feature by British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi, who also wrote the screenplay, is so thoroughly appalling that it sometimes ...
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WEBAs Fiona Shaw’s shiningly free and easy narration told us, Shakespeare’s sparring Beatrice and Benedick are merely counterpoint to a supposedly comic plot that becomes a potential tragedy, and tests the japers’ seriousness. Berlioz wanted none of that in his last opera, all southern sunlight and moonshine, caprice and reverie.
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WEBA Tupperware of Ashes, National Theatre review - family and food, love and loss. Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losing her car keys; burning rice in the pan; mixing up memories; just plain blank episodes. At various times, she relives distant moments in her life with ...
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WEBSep 10, 2024 · Nobodaddy, Teaċ Daṁsa, Dublin Theatre Festival review - supernatural song and dance odyssey. David Nice Thursday, 03 October 2024. Nobodaddy, taking its title from Blake’s violent dark-god “Father of Jealousy”, is much more than a dance piece, and Michael Keegan-Dolan, whose company was formerly known as Fabulous Beast, is …