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When Caroline Flack shone brightest: the touching story behind her Strictly triumph
Among the heartfelt tributes to the late Caroline Flack in recent days was a message from Strictly Come Dancing, praising the former contestant’s “infectious energy and passion for dance”. Flack won the 12th series of the show in 2014 with professional partner Pasha Kovalev, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ballroom, bbc, caroline flack, celebrity, craig revel-horwood, dance, dancing, darcey bussell, pasha kovalev, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, tv
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The Visit, National Theatre
Three years after the National’s enthralling revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s tragicomic 1956 parable – which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical. … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged book tickets, broadwayworld, drama, hugo weaving, lesley manville, london, national theatre, play, review, the visit, tony kushner
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Leopoldstadt, Wyndham’s Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s latest – and possibly final – play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality. Instead, we have a relatively straightforward, linear … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged antisemitism, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, ed stoppard, family, holocaust, jew, jewish, leopoldstadt, nazi, patrick marber, play, review, ticket deal, tom stoppard, vienna, west end, wyndhams theatre
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The Haystack, Hampstead Theatre
With counter-terrorism an urgent concern – and specifically how best to find, track and use the data of suspected threats, without sacrificing our privacy and civil liberties – it’s excellent timing for a meaty drama about the surveillance state. And the … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged al blyth, counter terrorism, data, edward snowden, free press, gchq, government, guardian, hacking, hampstead theatre, james graham, journalist, london, mass data collection, media, nsa, play, press, privacy, review, roxana silbert, security, security services, source, spy, state, surveillance, terrorism, terrorist, the haystack, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, whistleblower
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Endgame/Rough for Theatre II, Old Vic
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” Director Richard Jones has certainly taken Beckett’s words to heart in this vividly comic, star-cast Old Vic double bill, pairing Endgame with a lesser-known short play – which acts as a sort of stylistic and thematic amuse bouche. The result is a richly engaging … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged alan cumming, beckett, daniel radcliffe, death, endgame, existential, harry potter, jane horrocks, karl johnson, london, modernist, old vic, play, review, rough for theatre ii, theartsdesk, theatre
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New Year, New Dances
From circus and boxing crossover to retro with a twist and the ultimate diva moves: new dance styles to try this year. Read my full Dancing Times article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism
Tagged 2020, aerial, ballet, bollywood, boss, boxing, Caramelo Latin Dance, circus, class, dance, danceworks, dancing, diva, hula, islandsoul, kizomba, learn to dance, london, new, new year, pineapple dance studios, school, shway, sos, The Dance Studio Leeds, the factory, uk
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Faustus: That Damned Woman, Lyric Hammersmith
Changing the gender of the title character “highlights the way in which women still operate in a world designed by and for men,” argues Chris Bush, whose reimagining of Marlowe’s play premieres at the Lyric ahead of a UK tour. It’s certainly a compelling … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged chris bush, devil, faustus, feminist, gender, gender swap, hell, london, lyric hammersmith, marlowe, mephistopheles, play, review, that damned woman, theartsdesk, theatre
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The Welkin, National Theatre
How can we know more about a comet in outer space than we do a woman’s body? So queries Lucy Kirkwood’s superb new history play – a feminist courtroom drama that’s equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash … Continue reading
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Tagged book tickets, brexit, broadwayworld, feminist, gender, history, london, lucy kirkwood, maxine peake, national theatre, play, review, the welkin, theatre, trump, women
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