Gerald Barry’s take on Alice in Wonderland proves that opera is still alive and awake
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground has vitality, inventiveness and – as Barry likes to insist – tunes coming out of its ears.
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The light and shade of Shostakovich
Igor Levit brings dramatic contrasts to his performance of the preludes and fugues in their entirety, which marked the beginning…
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The relentlessly gynaecological joys of The Welkin
Set in 1759, this play is messy, ambitious and genre-bending.
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Teenage Dick at the Donmar: clever, nuanced and huge amounts of fun
Shakespeare’s Richard III reset in a contemporary American high school is both a ludicrous idea and one that instantly makes perfect sense.…
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The road not taken: Bernardine Evaristo on her career in theatre
My first career was as an actor in the 1980s. I’d spent my teenage years acting at Greenwich Young People’s…
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Max Martin’s jukebox musical & Juliet is silly, subversive and playfully self-aware
“I may run and hide when you’re screamin’ my name, alright,” sings a chiselled young William Shakespeare as he rises…
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Jellyfish: exploring the sex life of a woman with Down’s syndrome
“Can you hear that sound?” asks Kelly, holding one finger up in the air. “It’s my virginity, screaming.” Her virginity…
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Joyous and devastating: Melly Still’s Rusalka caps a season of supernatural tales at Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne has just ended its 2019 season with a radical version of The Magic Flute (is there any other kind,…
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