Reviews

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 [...]

Jade city – The Bunker, Sep’ 19’   Script – Alice Malseed Direction – Katherine Nesbitt   Direct from Belfast, Alice Malseed’s play about two young men living, [...]

Review of ‘No. 1. The Plaza’ from Getinthebackofthevan  (Cambridge Junction 10/4/14) by Tamsin Flower At first glance, ‘No. 1. The Plaza’ presents a conventional product of the performance art [...]

Therese Raquin – a musical adaptation by Nona Shepphard for the Finborough (The edited version for Exeunt magazine is at: http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/therese-raquin/) Nona Shepphard’s [...]

Steve Waters’ one-act-play ‘Why Can’t We Live Together?’                              Steve Waters’ Why Can’t We Live Together? traces the history of a married British couple against a backdrop [...]