Bryn Williams launches new dishes to mark the Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi exhibition at Somerset House. There’s a lovely mashup of art and food going on this spring at Somerset House, Tying in with the new free exhibition, Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi, chef Bryn Williams has come […]
Upstart Crow at The Gielgud Theatre – Review
Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow – a rollicking Shakespearian romp. There has been a lot of interest around David Mitchell making his West End debut in Upstart Crow at the Gielgud Theatre in Ben Elton’s adaptation of his hit BBC sitcom. I know this because on the train home the chap sitting next to me was […]
The Royal Opera House Friday Rush – The Cellist Premiere
Last Minute Tickets for The Cellist – Royal Opera House with Friday Rush. Finding reasonably priced tickets for the opera and ballet can be a challenge, especially if you are booking at the last minute. Being something of a masochist and with no fear of heights, sometimes I end up sitting in the Slips – […]
The High Table, Bush Theatre – review
The High Table – from London to Lagos It’s Valentine’s Day at the Bush Theatre and a celebration of love with the joyous opening of Temi Wilkey’s heart-warming and highly accomplished debut play The High Table. A touching and at times very funny exploration of homosexuality, marriage, cultural values and traditions, and intergenerational family dynamics. […]
The Visit – National Theatre review
Tony Kushner’s new adaptation of The Visit. Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s classic 1956 play The Visit (or The Old Lady Comes to Call) has been adapted by acclaimed North American playwright Tony Kushner, best known for writing the celebrated 1992 play ‘Angels in America’. Here Kushner has transported the story from central Europe to mid-20th-century America in a […]
Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal – Bluebeard at Sadler’s Wells – Review
Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók’s Opera ‘Duke Bluebeard’s Castle’ If Bartók’s seminal one-act opera ‘Duke Bluebeard’s Castle’ was a horrific insight into the machinations of the Duke, Pina Bausch’s interpretation takes the psychological drama to a new emotional level in her Tanztheater production. Watching the opera, the terrifying story is […]
Death of England – Dorfman, National Theatre – Review
Visceral Theatre in Death of England at the National Theatre. It’s always a stimulating experience going to The Dorfman Theatre. It’s the National’s version of the Young Vic or The Royal Court – a place to find experimental writing and productions; director Clint Dyer and his co-writer Roy Williams are both working-class and black and […]
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground – Review
Gerald Barry’s madcap Alice’s Adventures Under Ground at the Royal Opera House. It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) “Somehow it seems to fill my head with […]
Review – Kunene and the King – Ambassadors Theatre
John Kani and Anthony Sher – Kunene and the King. Kunene and the King, playing at The Ambassadors Theatre, brings together on stage two of the finest actors South Africa has ever produced. John Kani (actor, director, playwright and cultural activist) and Anthony Sher (who studied drama in the UK and rose to become one […]
Faustus: That Damned Woman – Lyric Hammersmith – Review
A legendary myth transforms into a vivid feminist tale. Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith’s powerful co-production of Faustus: That Damned Woman turns the legendary myth into a vivid feminist tale. Chris Bush’s cleverly written retelling of Christopher Marlowe’s renaissance play gender swaps the iconic role of Faustus to dramatic effect. It takes you on a […]