Silk Street Theatre, Barbican, London ****
Runs: 1hr 15 mins without an interval
Review of performance seen April 11, 2019:
Perhaps it depends on the order in which you see them. Then again, perhaps it makes no difference at all. Continue reading
Silk Street Theatre, Barbican, London ****
Runs: 1hr 15 mins without an interval
Review of performance seen April 11, 2019:
Perhaps it depends on the order in which you see them. Then again, perhaps it makes no difference at all. Continue reading
RSC Barbican Theatre, London (****)
It’s one of the abiding marks of our age, the con. Whether it’s flashy as in The Hustle, aspirational as in the Lottery, or sophisticated as in The Sting, the con runs through our lives. At any one moment, we’re only a hair’s breadth away from being taken for a ride. These days, it’s more likely to be an online or phone scam offering thousands of pounds at the press of a button or a computer to be saved from a terminal virus or even secondary glazing! Continue reading
Silk Street Theatre, Barbican, London (****)
Peggy Shaw’s last show in London, MUST was at Soho Theatre in May 2010. Give or take a few details (now she looks even more like Sean Penn), RUFF bears an uncanny resemblance to it. Continue reading
Barbican Theatre, London
***
After all the hullabaloo, is it possible for a performer to live up to the hype? Has the Bard fallen prey to rank commercialism? Continue reading
Barbican Theatre
Back in the early 1960s, anyone with half a curious cultural brain in their heads would take themselves off to small fleapit cinemas like The Academy or the Classic in Oxford Street (now defunct). There you could catch the latest European or `art’ film. And at one of these I remember seeing Italian director Antonioni’s La Notte (The Night) with Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni. Such was its impact neither I nor the flat mates I was with were able to utter a word until we reached home. Continue reading
Barbican Theatre, London
Ivo van Hove’s production of Antigone starts off with a visual bang: Juliette Binoche, a tiny figure in a hostile environment struggling against a fierce wind in a desert landscape.