Reviews Archives

Simon Thurley: The Building of England

- 15 May 2014

English Heritage Chief Executive Simon Thurley’s breakneck tour through the history and influence of the...

- 15 May 2014

Getting to witness dance performance of this calibre is such a treat; transportive and transformational...

- 15 May 2014

Oh dear, what to think, what to say? Perhaps I can admire the movement, the...

- 15 May 2014

This could have fallen apart in so many different ways, but so well was it...

- 14 May 2014

Read it at 14 and loved it but, saw the film and hated it –...

- 14 May 2014

Containing a frog-drinking scene (yes, you read that right), choreographer Wim Vandekeybus’ film Blush was...

- 14 May 2014

The German pianist’s setup involved one piano being ‘prepared’ in such a way as to...

- 13 May 2014

Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1937 tale of the innocence of childhood in a small Japanese village has...

- 13 May 2014

Creator Dan Canham recorded conversations with people of East Anglia fens for two years, resulting...

- 12 May 2014

Extended fanfares in Pavilion Gardens really captured the spirit of the Brighton Festival. An array...

- 12 May 2014

This great value-for-money show saw community choirs take on some of Rutter’s ‘Anthems’ to start...

- 12 May 2014

In shifting John Ford’s tale of declining morals by nigh on 400 years, it suffered...