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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With his long, lugubrious face, good head of borrowed hair in the style of an Abyssinian guinea-pig, indignant pout, anguished frown and trademark high-rising Eider duck calls of, “Ooo-ooh!’ whi ...
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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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