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Nov 1, 2024 · Burnt Up Love, Finborough Theatre review - scorching new play. Gary Naylor Monday, 11 November 2024. Mac is in prison for a long stretch. He is calm, contemplative almost, understands how to do his time and has only one rule – nobody, cellmate or guard, can touch the photo of his daughter, then three years old, attached to his wall.
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Bunrt-Up Love, Finborough Theatre review - scorching new play. Mac is in prison for a long stretch. He is calm, contemplative almost, understands how to do his time and has only one rule - nobody, cellmate or guard, can touch the photo of his daughter, then three years old, attached to his wall. Though he is a man who gets through the days with ...
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Oct 28, 2012 · The Wild Duck, The Norwegian Ibsen Company, Coronet Theatre review - slow burn, devastating climax David Nice Friday, 25 October 2024 “I think this is all very strange,” declares 14-year-old Hedvig Ekdal at the end of The Wild Duck’s third act, just as everything is about to plunge into a terrifying vortex.Alan Lucien Øyen's’s production is …
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Natalie Palamides: Weer, Soho Theatre - A romcom of two halves
1 day ago · Comic plays male and female roles simultaneously. by Veronica Lee Tuesday, 12 November 2024. Natalie Palamides is Mark and Christina in her new show Weer, a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Traverse Theatre. Natalie Palamides doesn't do things by halves. Actually, the Los Angeles-based clown does just that in her inventive new show Weer – a hit at ...
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London Film Festival 2024 - Nickel Boys, crime and punishment and Ukraine Nick Hasted Saturday, 26 October 2024 . RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing black Southern teenage boys, this time in Sixties juvenile prison the Nickel Academy, …
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Theartsdesk Sunday, 01 December 2024. It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.It followed some hectic and intensive months when a disparate and eclectic team of arts and culture writers went ahead with an ambitious plan – to launch a dedicated internet site devoted to coverage of ...
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Albert Herring, Scottish Opera review - fun, frivolity, and fine music-making Miranda Heggie Friday, 25 October 2024 . Having premiered at the Lammermuir Festival earlier this year, Daisy Evans’s new production of Britten’s Albert Herring is a gently funny and sweetly nostalgic telling of what’s essentially a coming of age comedy. In fact, the 80s costumes and the characters’ cute ...
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England was movie-mad long before the US. Contrary to appearances in a Hollywood-dominated world, the celluloid film process was patented in London in 1890 and by 1905 minute-long films of news and horse-racing were being made and shown widely in purpose-built cinemas, with added sound. The race to ...
Andrej Power, LSO, Mäkelä, Barbican review - singing, shrieking …
2 days ago · Alas, there was only one musician characterising less vividly than the rest in the entire concert: LSO co-leader Andrej Power, granted the role of soloist in Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto. The tone he produces from his Stradivarius is unceasingly warm and rich, yet paradoxically he seemed too much the virtuoso when Prokofiev calls for a ...