Southern Charm …it’s with a somewhat sombre mood that I’m penning the second to last in this series of blogs on reality TV. This is partly because all the fizzy heavy hitters are now on summer [...]
Below Deck Down Under Let’s talk about islands, or at least distant places where the waterline is visible on waking, and sand, softer than a grainy sandwich in Margate, is a footstep from your [...]
Photo of Matthew Keeler, Rosie Strobel & Elliot Broadfoot by Alex Brenner. It’s time for a Bonaparty according to the vision of Charles Court Opera’s indefatigable composing/writing duo [...]
It’s nice to be invited to work by an emerging company in one of those of festivals that is teeming with new talent – it reminds me that we are all part of the same eco-system and experience [...]
Credit: Graeme Miall. Social prescribers should take note of Clod Ensemble and Nu Civilisation Orchestra’s interactive dance extravaganza, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, hosted, [...]
My top 5 theatre and dance highlights of winter 2023/24 ~ in no particular order. These are shows I’ve reviewed, and have been chosen for the kind of holistic artistry that makes a [...]
Total Theatre saves the day! Immersive is making bank and fulfilling old ambition By Tamsin Flower What do divisive composer Richard Wagner, The Tower of London and dancers dressed [...]
Sondheim/Lapine’s Into the Woods is a Dramatist’s wet dream. It would be difficult to find a show in which the mechanics of story-building are so clearly foregrounded and visualised. It has all [...]
Under Milk Wood… July 2021.’ It is the tail-end of the lockdown everyone assumes is our last and theatres that can afford it have opened. Seeing Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre [...]
Peter Gynt – National Theatre, Aug’ 19’. Review by Tamsin Flower Script by David Hare Direction by Jonathan Kent Everyone loves seducers and sociopaths…in fiction. The [...]