Always a festive treat is the bewitching charm of Northern Ballet’s A Christmas Carol. With drama and character firmly at the fore, theatricality fires on all fronts as the stage fills with spec ...
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Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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QUEEN of SPADES (StudioCanal.) This excellent British melodrama, directed by Thorold Dickenson in 1948, is based on Pushkin’s 1834 novel and excellently acted. Faro, a once famous card gambling game, ...
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First things first. It’s not a wonderful life for English National Opera at present. ENO has been at the London Coliseum since 1968 and has made opera accessible to new audiences with many memorable p ...
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Nov 28, 2022
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