Prom 20. Review by Julia Pascal. The night of the male Modernists opened with a tribute to Harrison Birtwistle’s Sonance Severance 2000, a three minute composition which is as huge in its effect as it is brief in its length.
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Lillias White Sings Broadway. Review by Barbara Lewis. The pan-damn-demic, as Broadway singer Lillias White puts it, has abated sufficiently for her to bring her considerable presence to cosy, atmospheric venues, including Londonâs Crazy Coqs.
Truth to Power CafĂ©. Review by Barbara Lewis. Speaking Truth to Power has come to mean âsaying something to those in a position of trust or authority who donât want to hear it,â Jeremy Goldstein, the MC of the Truth to Power CafĂ©, tells us. Itâs a non-violent means of conflict resolution whose origins lie in the anti-war movement.
An Earlâs Court Miscellany. FinboroughFrontier online content. Review by Barbara Lewis. The ever-inventive Finborough Theatre has combined its return to real-life drama with an enlightened decision to carry on delivering original online work for free that surely can only enhance one of the strongest off-West End brands.
Covid Lockdown Breath Machine, Online. The Edinburgh Fringe has always been the place to push at the limits of what theatre is. This year, that is truer than ever as the uncertainties of COVID-19 have driven a digital shift.
LâHeure Espagnole, Grange Park Opera – an hour of escape into Maurice Ravelâs gloriously light opera bouffe that allows a woman to juggle three lovers with impunity.
At the start of 2020, Southwark Playhouse commissioned a group of playwrights to write short plays. The aim was for them to be performed on stage by the Elders Company, the playhouseâs drama group for anyone aged 65 and over, but then lockdown came along.
In a time of bitter, divisive politics, the positive, as well as the negative aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it is truly global: people everywhere feel the same fear, sorrow and frustration at the same time.
Every Christmas, Londonâs Old Vic delivers a production of Dickensâ A Christmas Carol. This year is no exception â except that it comes to us via Zoom.
Even more than an outpouring of passionate pacifism, Benjamin Brittenâs Owen Wingrave is a universal exploration of the heroic strength of character required to reject decades of blind allegiance to an unholy cause.
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Before lockdown, Bewleyâs CafĂ© Theatre in the bustling heart of Dublin was the place to grab a short lunch-time play, a bowl of soup – and maybe even chat up a stranger. For now, those days are gone, but Bewleyâs has joined forces with online events company The Lock Inn to open the tiny venue to a potentially limitless audience.
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Poetry review â PERFORMANCE RITES: James Roderick Burns admires Barry Smithâs exploration of the overlap between art and nature