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The return of Anthony Besch's celebrated production of Puccini's merry tale of political oppression, betrayal, torture, murder and suicide. Susannah Glanville (star of Opera North's highly-praised…
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27 Mar 2008
NEW WORK Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 3–Sat 5 Apr Edinburgh’s Lung Ha’s theatre company has always steered clear of politics. Although set up to give performing opportunities to people with learning disabilities, the company prefers to let the…
13 Dec 2007
The year began well at the Lyceum, with John Dove’s superb All My Sons setting the picket-fence lawns of postwar USA afire in a manner that reminded us that Miller’s message about the personal and political costs of capitalism is as inescapable today as…
8 May 2007
NEW WORK It is incontestable that politicians aren’t held in high esteem these days, but what is often missed by those who criticise the political classes is that it might be the system itself that dehumanises our leaders, rather than their…
Sunshine on Leith Stephen Greenhorn’s immense, joyful and sometimes sad musical brings the songs of The Proclaimers to life in theatre, in a musical that shows that working class life is just as fit for representation in this genre of theatre as the…
23 Apr 2007
NEW WORK The history play is, and has always been, a way to speak of contemporary times. Just as Shakespeare’s versions of Henry V, Richard III and even King Lear were more a commentary on contemporary events than the past, so every history play…
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