Monthly Archives: July 2016

GUYS AND DOLLS, the classic Broadway musical, has a wonderful collection of songs by Frank Loesser. The first- rate book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, sentimental and witty, is based on Damon Runyon’s The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown … Continue reading →

Swan Lake is every choreographer’s plaything and Tchaikovsky’s score is always a winner. Graeme Murphy’s radical version for Australian Ballet is half-modern and half-traditional, pandering to those who want something new and to those who want something old. It never … Continue reading →

The Tiger Lillies have a flair for the macabre, the surreal, the anarchic and the mordant. Their act is modelled on pre-war Berlin cabaret and they have performed in opera houses, rock festivals, circus tents and smelly pubs. Love for … Continue reading →

During a six-week rehearsal period, playwright Anthony Nielson and his actors created and developed Unreachable from scratch. There was no script. They ended up with a scrappy satire on the movie industry which is much inferior to Charles Wood’s Veterans, … Continue reading →

Robert Lepage, the Quebecois director, writer, actor and filmmaker, who combines physical and visual elements with text and performance, returned to London in an impressionistic work, which he first created in 1991, following a painful break-up. It was seen at … Continue reading →

The film made British director and screenwriter Alan Parker’s name in 1975. The musical, with songs by Paul Williams, is a parody of a typical Warner Bros Prohibition gangster movie of the 1930’s with stars such as Edward G Robinson, … Continue reading →

Brian Friel’s story of an Irish itinerant priest’s life, spiritual redemption and violent death is told in four long, compelling monologues: two by the priest (Stephen Dillane) and two by his devoted and constantly humiliated wife (Gena McKee) and his … Continue reading →

Natalia Osipova, a classical ballerina, is at the top of her profession. It is natural she should want to do something different and extend her range by mixing classical and modern dance. Osipova commissioned works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell … Continue reading →