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Oct 1, 2011 · Reykjavik, Hampstead Theatre review - drama frozen by waves of detail. “Don’t take a piss in the house of a woman you have made a widow.”. The mixture of earthy comedy and tragic pain in this piece of parental advice is typical of the tone of Richard Bean’s Reykjavik, his new work play which explores the lives of the Hull trawlermen of ...
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5 days ago · Bunrt-Up Love, Finborough Theatre review - scorching new play. Mac is in prison for a long stretch. He is calm, contemplative almost, understands how to do his time and has only one rule - nobody, cellmate or guard, can touch the photo of his daughter, then three years old, attached to his wall. Though he is a man who gets through the days with ...
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Oct 28, 2012 · The Wild Duck, The Norwegian Ibsen Company, Coronet Theatre review - slow burn, devastating climax David Nice Friday, 25 October 2024 “I think this is all very strange,” declares 14-year-old Hedvig Ekdal at the end of The Wild Duck’s third act, just as everything is about to plunge into a terrifying vortex.Alan Lucien Øyen's’s production is …
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Nick Hasted Saturday, 26 October 2024. The once invincible superhero genre may have finally hit the skids, but Tom Hardy’s alien anti-hero stays intermittently fresh in his saga’s supposed finale, styled by writer-director Kelly Marcel as a partial romcom between parasitic, people-eating alien Venom and his reluctant human host Eddie Brock.
Natalie Palamides: Weer, Soho Theatre - A romcom of two halves
1 day ago · Comic plays male and female roles simultaneously. by Veronica Lee Tuesday, 12 November 2024. Natalie Palamides is Mark and Christina in her new show Weer, a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Traverse Theatre. Natalie Palamides doesn't do things by halves. Actually, the Los Angeles-based clown does just that in her inventive new show Weer – a hit at ...
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London Film Festival 2024 - Nickel Boys, crime and punishment and Ukraine Nick Hasted Saturday, 26 October 2024 . RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing black Southern teenage boys, this time in Sixties juvenile prison the Nickel Academy, …
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Albert Herring, Scottish Opera review - fun, frivolity, and fine music-making Miranda Heggie Friday, 25 October 2024 . Having premiered at the Lammermuir Festival earlier this year, Daisy Evans’s new production of Britten’s Albert Herring is a gently funny and sweetly nostalgic telling of what’s essentially a coming of age comedy. In fact, the 80s costumes and the characters’ cute ...
First Person: Alec Frank-Gemmill on reasons for another recording …
15 hours ago · above the part for the original soloist. by Alec Frank-Gemmill Tuesday, 12 November 2024. Alec Frank-Gemmill in the Mozart recording session with Nicholas McGegan and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. One former teacher of mine said of their recording of the Mozart horn concertos “I’m not really sure why I bothered”.
Andrej Power, LSO, Mäkelä, Barbican review - singing, shrieking …
1 day ago · Alas, there was only one musician characterising less vividly than the rest in the entire concert: LSO co-leader Andrej Power, granted the role of soloist in Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto. The tone he produces from his Stradivarius is unceasingly warm and rich, yet paradoxically he seemed too much the virtuoso when Prokofiev calls for a ...