Southern Charm & Summerhouse – love and addiction
Southern Charm …it’s with a sombre mood that I’m penning the penultimate blog of this quartet on Reality TV. This is partly because all the fizzy, heavy hitters are now on summer recess – [...]
Guilty Pleasures TV – Below Deck Down Under & Virgin Island
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 [...]
Napoleon: un petit pantomime at Jermyn St Theatre ~ review
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 [...]
Voila! Theatre Festival ~ ‘Sharing is Caring’
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 [...]
A case for ecstatic (Jazz) dance ~ Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
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 Theatre & Dance highlights winter 23/24
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
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 [...]
Director’s Cut Blog – Review of Into the Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Sondheim/Lapine
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 [...]
Back to ‘Live’ in London – from oratory in a dark theatre to dance with the outdoors and each other…A review of: Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre, En Route by PROTEIN and From Greenwich with Love by Rendez-Vous Dance.
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 [...]
Review: Peter Gynt, National Theatre, August 2019
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 [...]