THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Rossini’s sparkling comic masterpiece, dashed off in less than three weeks when he was but 25-years-old, had a disastrous first night in Rome in 1816. The strings of a guitar br ...
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Spymonkey, the UK’s leading physical comedy ensemble, is staging a three-hander adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Frogs, the oldest comedy in the world, with massive apologies to Aristophanes. I had see ...
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Jez Butterworth’s big success with his last two award-winning plays, Jerusalem and The Ferryman, means there is an adult audience ready and eager to fill a West End theatre to see his three-hour famil ...
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Jillian Keily’s extraordinary production, which premiered in 2023, is far more interested in spectacle than poetry and medieval history. So, audiences, who want to see the play Shakespeare wrote about ...
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Feb 6, 2024
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