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Pick of the Week
Poldark, Woody Allen, Proms pleasures and Blackpool illuminations. Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged alvin ailey, anna maxwell martin, art, best, blackpool, cafe society, dance, film, hampstead theatre, labyrinth, motherhood, music, neon, pick of the week, poldark, proms, sadlers wells, sharon horgan, theartsdesk, theatre, tv, victoria, woody allen
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Macbeth, Young Vic
Events have overtaken this Macbeth, dramatically heightening its queasy topicality. Not just brutal beheadings and torture, but the cost and collateral damage of conflict without end, and the scourge of a tyrant slaughtering his own people, strike one anew in … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anna maxwell martin, carrie cracknell, dance, death, drama, john heffernan, king, london, lucy guerin, macbeth, movement, murder, play, review, shakespeare, the arts desk, the scottish play, theartsdesk, theatre, war, young vic
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Wonderfully lucid Lear with a licence to thrill
Fresh from Skyfall triumph, Sam Mendes swaps Bond for the Bard and Daniel Craig for long-time collaborator Simon Russell Beale in a wonderfully lucid King Lear, certain to please aficionados and win over newcomers. Mendes’s Lear is the tyrant of … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged Adrian Scarborough, anna maxwell martin, drama, ham & high, james bond, king lear, london, national theatre, olivier, play, review, sam mendes, shakespeare, simon russell beale, skyfall, theatre, wheel of fortune
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