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Oct 18, 2024 · 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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4 days ago · Fauré Centenary Concert 1, Wigmore Hall review - Isserlis and friends soar. David Nice Monday, 04 November 2024. Earlier this year, Steven Isserlis curated a revelatory Sheffield Chamber Music Festival spotlighting Saint-Saëns, with plentiful Fauré towards the end. Now it’s the younger composer’s turn, marking his death 100 years ago on ...
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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.
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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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Vanessa Bell, MK Gallery review - diving into and out of abstraction. Sarah Kent Tuesday, 22 October 2024. The Bloomsbury group’s habit of non-binary bed-hopping has frequently attracted more attention than the artworks they produced. But in their Vanessa Bell retrospective, the MK Gallery has steered blissfully clear of salacious tittle tattle.
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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 ...
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Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Drumsheds review - surround-sound magic in the super-club. Boyd Tonkin Saturday, 19 October 2024. Every lover of folk-tales knows that the seeker has to endure dangers and setbacks before they finally win the prize. Last night, the ever-enterprising Aurora Orchestra played The Firebird – Stravinsky’s own musical ...
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by Theartsdesk Tuesday, 28 December 2021. 'The Bride', 1994, by Paula Rego (pastel on paper on aluminium) Collection Tate Gallery, London. Despite its much delayed start, 2021 was a great year for the visual arts, and institutions and artists alike showed their resilience in agile and sensitive responses to unprecedented conditions.
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Oct 4, 2024 · Documentary highlights from the 2024 London Film Festival. Saskia Baron Saturday, 26 October 2024. One of the many pleasures of the London Film Festival is the chance to see high-quality documentaries on the big screen. If lucky, these films might get a brief, specialist cinema release, but all too often non-fiction features are destined for TV.