Shakespeare’s Shylock as opera
Robert Tanitch reviews WNO’s The Merchant of Venice at Royal Opera House, London Shakespeare’s play is one of his most accessible but it has lost its popular appeal since the Holocaust. At the very fi ...
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Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs celebrates its 20th birthday
Robert Tanitch reviews Disco Pigs at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 In 1997 the then thirty-year-old Enda Walsh won the George Devine Award and the Stewart Park Award for Disco Pigs and his success l ...
Kevin Elyot’s last play gets a posthumous premiere
Robert Tanitch reviews Twilight Song at Park Theatre, London, Finsbury Pak, London N4 Kevin Elyot (1951-2014) is the author of one of the very best gay plays, My Night with Reg, which had a successful ...
Emily Dickinson said that what makes life so sweet is that it will never come again
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs A Quiet Passion (Soda). Terence Davies’ leisurely portrait of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) captures the starchy, stifling times in which she liv ...