Reviews

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...

The Lads In Their Hundreds: Comèdie de Picardy

The Lads In Their Hundreds: Comèdie de Picardy

- 7 May 2015

With only schoolboy French I was worried that this might be a tough act to...

Louise Alder (soprano) and James Baillieu (piano)

Louise Alder (soprano) and James Baillieu (piano)

- 6 May 2015

Louise Alder began with Gypsy songs by Schumann, one bright-voiced and the second beguilingly plaintive....

Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

- 6 May 2015

Vlad The Impaler is a play that tells the history of both the Romanian prince...

My Kampf

My Kampf

- 6 May 2015

Andy Thomas gave a very frank and honest comedic account of his life in My...




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