Review: Sex Worker’s Opera, Ovalhouse
Opera and musical theatre have historically not been very kind in their representation of certain demographics: BME people, for example, barely figure in what w...
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Review: Amore, London Coliseum
Sensual gluttony. Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and other members of the company created Amore, which allowed my eyes and ears to gorge upon this celebra...
Review: Marnie, London Coliseum
Nico Muhly is back at the Coliseum with the world premiere of a new opera, following 2011’s Two Boys. Based on Winston Graham’s novel – and dramatised by Hitchc...
Review: Giulio Cesare, Hackney Empire
Unfamiliar as I am to opera, I was moved by the power it has to communicate without (English) words, but through music, voice and expression. Handel's Giulio Ce...
Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Royal Opera House
Published in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is a story that has been loved and revered by adults and children alike for over 150 years. Now, since it...
From bedtime reading to centre stage: adapting children’s books for theatre
“Why can’t you fly now, mother?” Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.” Peter Pan, J.M Barrie Mrs. Darling is...