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网页Dominique White: Deadweight, Whitechapel Gallery review - sculptures that seem freighted with history. Sarah Kent Monday, 29 July 2024. It’s been a long time since the Whitechapel Gallery has presented three seriously good exhibitions at the same time. Already reviewed are Gavin Jantjes’ paintings on show in the main gallery.
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网页The Silver Cord, Finborough Theatre review - Sophie Ward is compellingly repellent. One of the Finborough Theatre’s Artistic Director, Neil McPherson’s, gifts is an uncanny ability to find long-forgotten plays that work, right here, right now. He’s struck gold again with The Silver Cord, presenting its first London production for over 95 ...
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网页Prom 62, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Bavarian RSO, Rattle review - sound over momentum. David Nice Saturday, 07 September 2024. Mahler’s Sixth is one of those apocalyptic megaliths that shouldn’t be approached too often by audiences or conductors. It’s been a constant in Simon Rattle’s treasury since 1989, when he first recorded it with ...
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网页Starve Acre review - unearthing the unearthly in a fine folk horror film. Blame the high cost of city housing, or killer smog. What else can explain a bright young couple’s move from 1970s Leeds to Starve Acre, an isolated, near-derelict farm in rural Yorkshire that has to be the spookiest back-to-the-land setting since The Wicker Man.
The Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but ...
网页1 天前 · As the Hampstead Theatre stages Stella Feehily’s new play, The Lightest Element, which was originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the question of how to entertain as well as inform gets a contemporary twist as the playwright explores the themes of sexism and politics, as well as scientific discovery.The setting is historical, but the subject is as relevant as ever.
Opera reviews, news and interviews | The Arts Desk
网页David Nice Friday, 30 August 2024. If you ever doubted that Bizet’s Carmen, 150 years young next year, is one of the greatest operas of all time, this performance would have changed your mind. Among the four principals only Rihab Chaieb’s utterly convincing, consistent protagonist was the same as on first night 22 performances ago, and as ...
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网页Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free, Whitechapel Gallery review - a sweet and sour response to horrific circumstances. Sarah Kent Wednesday, 19 June 2024. Born in Cape Town in 1948, Gavin Jantjes grew up under apartheid. He openly criticised the regime in his work and, forced into exile, was granted political asylum in Germany in 1973.
Classical Music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
网页Prom 62, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Bavarian RSO, Rattle review - sound over momentum. David Nice Saturday, 07 September 2024. Mahler’s Sixth is one of those apocalyptic megaliths that shouldn’t be approached too often by audiences or conductors. It’s been a constant in Simon Rattle’s treasury since 1989, when he first recorded it with ...
Zoë Coombs Marr, Soho Theatre - stock takes and spreadsheets
网页1 天前 · by Veronica Lee Thursday, 19 September 2024. Zoë Coombs Marr will soon be 40 and has been assessing her life so far Tommy Ga-Ken Wan. You have to admire the ambition of a show called Every Single Thing in My Whole Entire Life, the latest from Zoe Coombs Marr, which she performed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe and is now in …
Resurgence, London City Ballet, Sadler’s Wells review - the phoenix ...
网页1 天前 · A newly reformed London City Ballet of 14 dancers has just completed a UK tour, ending with a handful of performances in London prior to a stint in New York. Director Christopher Marney played a careful hand in his choices for a programme he called Resurgence, among them a buoyant piece of pure dance that was a …