The Great Gatsby: Northern Ballet

The elegance of the twenties, the passions and betrayals of a band of swinging lovers and the threat of trench-coated Continue reading →

Vollmond: Tanztheater Wuppertal

Enter the world of Pina Bausch and you find yourself in an alien country where you don’t quite know the language; you Continue reading →

The Book of Mormon: West End

At lunchtime, I was reading Alain de Botton‘s stimulating ‘Religion for Atheists’, and cerebrally considering matters of faith over Schezwan chicken. Continue reading →

Julius Caesar: Donmar

The Donmar, starkly decked out as a women’s jail, gave me an eerie flashback to when I briefly taught drama Continue reading →

Hans Was Heiri: Zimmermann and de Perrot

Feeling a little undernourished by not seeing enough in this year’s London International Mime Festival, cycled off to the Barbican to Continue reading →

The Magistrate: National Theatre

Really rather enjoyed the exuberant hi-jinx of The Magistrate at the National Theatre tonight… a wordy, galloping, improbable farce, but infused with Continue reading →

Fuerza Bruta: Roundhouse

Fuerza Bruta at the Roundhouse… revisiting it seven years later delighted to say that I enjoyed it even more, which is Continue reading →

Les Misérables

So, Les Misérables… well it totally does the job. Cried in all the right places. The heart of it is Hathaway’s Continue reading →