THEATRE REVIEWS

Why was I born if I am not to live forever?

Why was I born if I am not to live forever?

Robert Tanitch reviews Exit the King at National Theatre/Olivier, London Eugène Ionesco (1909 -1994), a major playwright of the French Absurdist Theatre, which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, was i ...
Bizet plus samba, rumba, cha-cha-cha and salsa

Bizet plus samba, rumba, cha-cha-cha and salsa

Robert Tanitch reviews Carmen La Cubana at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 First there was Prosper Mérimée’s novella in 1845, and then in 1875 there was Georges Bizet’s opera. The French critics th ...