Death takes a much-needed holiday
Robert Tanitch reviews Death Takes A Holiday at Charing Cross Theatre, London WC2 Alberto Casella wrote Death Takes A Holiday in 1924. The total number of military and civilian deaths in World War 1 w ...
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The 2004 Beslan siege is seen through a child’s eyes
Robert Tanitch reviews Us/Them at National Theatre/Dorfman Beslan is the third largest town in the Republic of North Ossatia-Alania in the Russian Caucasus. In September 2004 armed Chechian terrorists ...
Peter Greenaway’s best film in years
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (Axiom). The great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein (played by a flamboyant, charismatic Elmir Back) goes to Mexico in 1931 to film Qu ...
Roland Schimmelpfennig’s political play is very timely
Robert Tanitch reviews Winter Solstice at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of Germany’s most famous and prolific playwrights, wrote Winter Solstice in late 2013 in res ...