Reviews

Britten Sinfonia, Barbara Hannigan (soprano, conductor)

Britten Sinfonia, Barbara Hannigan (soprano, conductor)

- 14 May 2015

Exploring the inspiration of Stravinsky, the programme had a fresh sense of excitement and pace...

Stuck With You

Stuck With You

- 13 May 2015

Audley and Co Productions brought a different flavour to their repertoire for this year’s Brighton...

The Christeene Machine

The Christeene Machine

- 13 May 2015

This cross-dressing zombie dance act from Texas was the perfect election night distraction. Entering slung...

The Business of Murder

The Business of Murder

- 13 May 2015

This is a superbly acted, tense thriller with a clever script that forensically dissects our...

What The Butler Saw

What The Butler Saw

- 12 May 2015

Joe Orton’s writing never fails to make me laugh but this is him at his...

Stephen Upshaw (viola) Veronika Trisko (piano)

Stephen Upshaw (viola) Veronika Trisko (piano)

- 11 May 2015

Subtitled ‘Exoticism and Folk Music’, when the lightest item in the programme is Bartók’s ‘Romanian...

Classical Spectacular: Peter Farrant (conductor)

Classical Spectacular: Peter Farrant (conductor)

- 11 May 2015

A startlingly good value for money programme featured a wide variety of pieces, including a...

Liam Williams: Capitalism

Liam Williams: Capitalism

- 11 May 2015

There’s something very meta about Liam Williams’ Foster award-nominated show. Williams is highly intelligent, articulate...

Stuart Black: Lemsip And Cigarettes

Stuart Black: Lemsip And Cigarettes

- 9 May 2015

Stuart Black has some great ideas. He questions things, he gathers facts, he gathers opinions,...

Alexander Karpeyev (piano)

Alexander Karpeyev (piano)

- 8 May 2015

Only the fool-hardy or brilliant would start with Schumann’s ‘Concerto without Orchestra’, an ardent, ambitiously...

Lucia’s Chapter’s of Coming Forth by Day: Mabou Mines

Lucia’s Chapter’s of Coming Forth by Day: Mabou Mines

- 8 May 2015

Lucia Joyce, daughter of James and mentally unstable – the stuff of theatrical magic, which...

Huw Wiggin (saxophone) & James Sherlock (piano)

Huw Wiggin (saxophone) & James Sherlock (piano)

- 8 May 2015

Sometimes a concert can be so original, daring & musically dazzling that it takes one’s...