Category: THEATRE REVIEWS
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A 19th century anti-slavery melodrama is revisited by a modern black playwright
Robert Tanitch reviews An Octoroon at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s anti-slavery melodrama, The Octoroon or Life in Louisiana, which […]
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The Mikado is given an all-male camping trip
Robert Tanitch reviews The Mikado at Richmond Theatre, Surrey Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado had its premiere in 1885 when things Japanese were all the rage in England. It ran […]
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Ballets by William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Christopher Wheldon and Liam Scarlett
Robert Tanitch reviews Royal Ballet’s mixed programme at Royal Opera House, London The programme opens with William Forsythe’ demanding, fiendishly difficult The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude to the last movement […]
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Galileo’s scientific truth versus Roman Catholic spiritual truth
Robert Tanitch reviews The Life of Galileo at Young Vic, London SE1 Galileo in 1609 built his first telescope and discovered that the earth was not the centre of the […]