Death and vengeance in Italy
Robert Tanitch reviews The Revenger’s Tragedy at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 The violence in Thomas Middleton’s revenge play, a once highly popular genre, is played out in all its vicious and grotesq ...
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Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes – A ballet within a ballet
I can’t claim to be an afficionado of ballet at all. Indeed, in my 64 years on the planet I have never even seen a live ballet. But if Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is anything to go by, then I have ...
Kidd Pivot takes a look at Nikolai Gogol’s comic masterpiece
Robert Tanitch reviews Revisor at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 REVISOR is presented by Kidd Pivot, a Canadian contemporary dance theatre company based in Vancouver and led by its founder and art ...
Sharp increase in hospital admissions related to homelessness
New analysis from The King’s Fund shows a steep year-on-year rise in the number of hospital admissions related to homelessness in England. In 2018/19, 27,883 people were admitted to hospital in Englan ...