Review: Flamenco Festival London: Gerardo Núñez, Sadler’s Wells
It is difficult to write about a flamenco concert without spewing clichés about the passion, the emotional intensity and the infectious rhythms: I’ll try to kee...
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Review: Slightly Fat Features in Variety Soup, Leicester Square Theatre
“We’ve got to roar and cheer and stuff,” a lady sat two rows in front of me emphatically instructed her companion just before Slightly Fat Features took the sta...
Review: Symphony, Soho Theatre
Is it a play? Is it a gig? No - it’s some kind of hybrid live music story-telling experience brought to you by nabokov and director Joe Murphy! Symphony is a co...
Review: An Enemy of the People, Barbican Theatre
German director Thomas Ostermeier is on an odyssey through Ibsen. “Roughly every two years I have directed an Ibsen play,” he states in the programme, and his ...
Edinburgh Review: Before Us, Underbelly Cowgate
When Stuart Bowden peered out from behind the curtain, barefoot, with his bespectacled face, angular beard and pale, skinny legs protruding from a lumpy green s...
Edinburgh Review: Rubberbandits: Continental Fistfight, Gilded Balloon
Self-proclaimed "devil's answer to dandruff" Rubberbandits are truly unlike any other act at the Fringe – or anywhere else for that matter. The Irish-based come...