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English National Ballet’s triple bill is dedicated to female choreographers

Robert Tanitch reviews She Persisted at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. London EC1 Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet’s artistic director, has said she wants to redress the gender in balance in contemporary ...

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The plight of the black man in the Apartheid era in South Africa

Robert Tanitch reviews Blood Knot at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey. Athol Fugard has always said that the toughest challenge he faced right at the beginning of his career with Blood Knot was t ...

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Carol Morley’s frequently self-indulgent film plays with a well loved genre and loses

Joyce Glasser reviews Out of Blue (March 29, 2019), Cert. 15, 109 min. Carol Morley and Lynne Ramsay are, along with Andrea Arnold and Clio Barnard, arguably the best known female writer/directors of ...

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Where is Jack the Ripper?

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel at London Coliseum. Jack the Ripper was active in and around the slums of Whitechapel in 1888. He got his nickname because of the ...

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