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ANaziComparison
Review: A Nazi Comparison, Waterloo East Theatre
Fever Pitch - the Opera (1) Photgrapher credit Claudia Marinaro
Review: Fever Pitch, The Opera (Union Chapel)
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Review: Buried Child, Trafalgar Studios
lazarus
Review: Lazarus, Kings Cross Theatre
Alan Mahon and Ammar Duffus in If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You I Love You. Image: Claudia Marinaro
Review: If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You I Love You
The Importance of Being Earnest
29 March—3 April 2016 
Barbican Theatre
Gerald Barry’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic play is a comic masterpiece.
Music
Gerald Barry
Libretto
Gerald Barry

Creative:
Tim Murray Conductor
Director Ramin Gray 
Set Design Ben Clark (after an idea by Johannes Schutz)
Composed by Costume designs Christina Cunningham
Lighting Design Franz Peter David
Movement Director Leon Baugh

Cast:
Simon Wilding as Lane/Merriman
Benedict Nelson as Algernon Moncreiff
Paul Curievici as John Worthing
Stephanie Marshall as The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell
Hilary Summers as Miss Prism
- as Cecily Cardew
- as The Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D
Review: The Importance Of Being Earnest (The Barbican)

Theatre

ANaziComparison
October 24, 2017

Review: A Nazi Comparison, Waterloo East Theatre

Does A Nazi Comparison signal the future direction of theatre?

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lazarus
November 8, 2016
Review: Lazarus, Kings Cross Theatre

A gin genie pines to leave this plane of existence. We know the feeling.

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Alan Mahon and Ammar Duffus in If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You I Love You. Image: Claudia Marinaro
September 1, 2016
Review: If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You I Love You

A night on the tiles leads to something more…

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Review: Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic)
April 23, 2015
Review: Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic)

ArtBravi Rating Ah, Wilderness, currently showing at the Young Vic, is Eugene O’Neill’s most popular c…

Review: Rules for Living (National Theatre)
March 25, 2015
Review: Rules for Living (National Theatre)

ArtBravi Rating What exactly are the rules for living? Are they to do with making a guy wait a decade …

Opera

Fever Pitch - the Opera (1) Photgrapher credit Claudia Marinaro
September 24, 2017

Review: Fever Pitch, The Opera (Union Chapel)

Is it 1-0 to the Arsenal or another disappointing outing?

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The Importance of Being Earnest
29 March—3 April 2016 
Barbican Theatre
Gerald Barry’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic play is a comic masterpiece.
Music
Gerald Barry
Libretto
Gerald Barry

Creative:
Tim Murray Conductor
Director Ramin Gray 
Set Design Ben Clark (after an idea by Johannes Schutz)
Composed by Costume designs Christina Cunningham
Lighting Design Franz Peter David
Movement Director Leon Baugh

Cast:
Simon Wilding as Lane/Merriman
Benedict Nelson as Algernon Moncreiff
Paul Curievici as John Worthing
Stephanie Marshall as The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell
Hilary Summers as Miss Prism
- as Cecily Cardew
- as The Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D
March 30, 2016
Review: The Importance Of Being Earnest (The Barbican)

When Gerard Barry chose to dress up one of Oscar Wilde’s most famous plays as an avant-garde opera, di…

La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, by Tristram Kenton
January 25, 2016
Review: La Traviata (Royal Opera House)

La Traviata, the most performed opera in the world, has returned to Covent Garden in breathtaking styl…

Mary Bevan and Anthony Gregory in The Mikado. Image by Tristram Kenton
November 25, 2015
Review: Jonathan Miller’s Mikado (ENO)

In an age when the internet frequently loses its collective shit over mooted film remakes or sequels t…

Morgen und Abend by Clive Barda
November 16, 2015
Review: Morgen und Abend (Royal Opera House)

Georg Friedrich Haas’s new opera, Morgen und Abend, is a relentless sensory assault over 90 wail…

Dance

Review: Carmina Burana (London Coliseum)
March 21, 2015

Review: Carmina Burana (London Coliseum)

ArtBravi Rating When was the last time a ballet could be described as dark, sexy and controversial? The Coliseum is currently home to Bir…

Review: Tango Fire - Flames of Desire (Peacock Theatre)Review: Tango Fire - Flames of Desire (Peacock Theatre)
January 30, 2015
Review: Tango Fire – Flames of Desire (Peacock Theatre)

ArtiBravi Those searching for proof of George Bernard Shaw’s view that “dancing is the vertical expres…

Review: Swan Lake (English National Ballet, London Coliseum)
January 11, 2015
Review: Swan Lake (English National Ballet, London Coliseum)

ArtiBravi Rating When Swan Lake first hit London over a century ago, it appeared heavily abridged at w…

Review: Ballet Revolución (Peacock Theatre)
October 12, 2014
Review: Ballet Revolución (Peacock Theatre)

As Ballet Revolución at the Peacock Theatre amply demonstrates, celebrated danseur noble Carlos Acosta…