24 November 2013

Music

aco- mozart clarinet concerto

This was a superb concert, the audience particularly going into raptures over the Mozart clarinet concerto, with an unusual, challenging program beforehand. A strong Nordic connection was emphasised by the ACO’s Assistant Leader Satu Vänskä leading the ensemble on this …

Theatre

dying for it

“Shit on fire” is the favoured catchphrase of  Semyon Semyonovich, the self-centred suicide in Moira Buffini’s DYING FOR IT, but on opening night  it was a case of hair on fire as lead actress Jodine Muir’s follicles came far too …

Theatre

atomic

It is great when theatre takes important stories out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Overshadowed by his contemporaries Einstein and Oppenheimer, physicist Leo Szilard’s (1898-1964) story  is an engrossing one. A Hungarian – American physicist and inventor, Szilard …

Theatre

waiting for godot

In 1966 Bob Dylan released one of his greatest albums- a double album, with the quirky title,  ‘Blonde on Blonde’. It featured some of the great songwriters finest songs.

Further back in 1953 Samuel Beckett released his play ‘Waiting for …

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