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网页2011年10月1日 · Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly original centenary revival of O'Casey's tragi-comedy. Heather Neill Monday, 07 October 2024. "Captain" Jack Boyle is a fantasist, a mythmaker, a storyteller. He relishes an audience – usually his sidekick, Joxer. There is a theatricality in his part as written by O'Casey, but in ...
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网页Sarah Kent Wednesday, 25 September 2024. Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual puns, a play on the laws of nature. On the Table, 1970 (pictured below right), for instance, appears to defy gravity. Four buckets filled with water stand on a table; so far so ordinary.
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网页6 天之前 · Demetrios Matheou Wednesday, 09 October 2024. Contemporary reworkings of Greek tragedy run a very particular risk, that out of context the heightened actions of the original plays – the woefully poor judgement, the copious bloodletting, the rush to disproportionate vengeance and suicide – can seem like hapless histrionics and just a …
A Raisin in the Sun, Lyric Hammersmith review - of race and men
网页12 小时之前 · Watching A Raisin in the Sun’s current staging, directed by Tinuke Craig for Headlong and visiting the Lyric Hammersmith as part of a national tour, it also resonates with other recent 1950s revivals: A Taste of Honey, Waiting for Godot, Roots and Look Back in Anger.Especially Look Back in Anger.In fact, the first act of Hansberry’s drama has all the passionate energy of the Osborne play.
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网页Joker: Folie à Deux review - supervillainy laid low. “Psychopaths sell like hotcakes,” William Holden observed in Sunset Boulevard in 1950, and those individuals have been doing good business for Hollywood before and since.We root for them and we don’t root for them at the same time, which is perhaps why not everyone in Hollywood has ...
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网页Hardenberger, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - splendour and a trumpeter's voluntary. Two splendid pieces of orchestral virtuosity began and finished the second Saturday concert by the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds at the Bridgewater Hall. It was given the title of “Mischief and Magic”, an apt ...
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网页As Fiona Shaw’s shiningly free and easy narration told us, Shakespeare’s sparring Beatrice and Benedick are merely counterpoint to a supposedly comic plot that becomes a potential tragedy, and tests the japers’ seriousness. Berlioz wanted none of that in his last opera, all southern sunlight and moonshine, caprice and reverie.
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网页2024年9月10日 · Nobodaddy, Teaċ Daṁsa, Dublin Theatre Festival review - supernatural song and dance odyssey. David Nice Thursday, 03 October 2024. Nobodaddy, taking its title from Blake’s violent dark-god “Father of Jealousy”, is much more than a dance piece, and Michael Keegan-Dolan, whose company was formerly known as Fabulous Beast, is …
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' and what women …
网页3 天之前 · The writer, director, and star inserts herself into the history of love. by Justine Elias Friday, 11 October 2024. Alice in Kubrick-land: Lowe and Nick Frost channel 'Barry Lyndon' in 'Timestalker' Vertigo Releasing/Ludo Roberts/BFI. Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater ...