Theatre review: The Magic Flute at Leeds Grand Theatre
Written towards the end of Mozart’s short life, The Magic Flute sees the great composer working in a very different register from his other famous works. Composed for a suburban theatre rather than an opera house, The Magic Flute draws upon various musical and theatrical traditions to deliver a fantastical tale in which the forces of good ultimately vanquish those of evil.
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Theatre review: Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre
Robert Icke’s version of Oedipus isn’t just an adaptation to fit it into modern dress but a radical reworking built around the important plot points of the legend that is really a gripping new play.. It premièred in Dutch six years ago, presented by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, and was originally planned pre-COVID to open in London in 2020 with Helen Mirren.
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The Royal Opera with San Francisco Opera. Royal Ballet & Opera (formerly Royal Opera House), London. 22 December 2024 – 7 January 2025
Theatre review: Ruddigore at Leeds Grand Theatre
The librettist W S Gilbert was fond of paradox. This is amply demonstrated by his comic operas—famously co-written with the composer Arthur Sullivan—in which dramatic conventions, social expectations and everyday logic are repeatedly turned upside down.
Theatre review: Never Let Me Go at Rose Theatre
Never Let Me Go is said to be Ishiguro’s best novel, and one that helped clinch the Nobel Prize in Literature. The theatre adaptation at Kingston’s Rose Theatre is closely reminiscent of the novel—a faithful rendition to a narrative that keeps you guessing until the end.
Theatre listing: The Mousetrap
2021年12月23日 · The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie) The world’s longest-running play. This West End production—which has become as much of a London icon as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace—is the genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time.
Theatre review: The Turn of the Screw at London Coliseum
Isabella Bywater, both director and designer of ENO’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James’s 1898 ambiguous gothic novella, has set it in a mental asylum in the early 1960s with flashbacks to the 1930s.Britten first heard and read the novella in 1933; his opera opened at La Fenice on 14 September 1954 and in London 6 October.
Theatre review: Play On! at Belgrade Theatre
Theatre review of Play On! (Cheryl L West and Duke Ellington) from Talawa Theatre Company and Belgrade Theatre with Birmingham Hippodrome, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Wiltshire Creative at Belgrade Theatre - …
Theatre listing: Dracula
2024年8月2日 · New version of Dracula marks centenary of original stage show. 2 August 2024. Blackeyed Theatre's new version of Dracula will visit Derby, where Hamilton Deane’s production marked the first official appearance on stage of Bram’s Stoker’s anti-hero.