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Following the success of their fairytale trilogy - Rapunzel , Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White - balletLORENT returns with a magical new production for ages 5+. This fresh take on the classic tale combines imaginative visual storytelling with words by former poet laureate Carol...
At the edge of ecological collapse, Huella unfolds around an ambiguous waterfall carrying the memory of water, as new geologies emerge. Through eco-poetic symbolism, a danced installation-performance of textural and flamenco soundscapes traverses dissonant yet porous...
Visceral and contemplative, WITHIN shows Aditi Mangaldas’ Kathak contemporary dance style at its best. Performed by 11 dancers – including Mangaldas – and four musicians.
Who doesn’t like dancing as if no one is watching? balletLORENT has created Best Worst Dances to make us fall in love with dancing again. A jukebox of songs and an eclectic array of dancers - some professional and others plucky members of the public - move with wild, free range...
Connor Delves delivers a remarkable one man show about a remarkable man…
'...the standout of the piece is the writing itself. Daye has a gift for calling out performative activism in a way that doesn’t feel accusatory... Our Ghost Drinks Matcha explores the grey area, the place where there isn’t a ‘happy ending’...'…
If you want to bring a little Spanish warmth into your autumn, you could do much worse than head down to Sussex, where Glyndebourne's Autumn Season is now in full swing. In 1775, Beaumarchais created the character of Figaro in his play Le Barbier de Séville and over 250 years later, we are still…
Part Wuthering Heights, part God’s Own Country, this is a familiar tale viewed through an interesting lens. It doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the wheel, but it does need to give us a reason to look at it differently.…
Helene Alving is about to inaugurate an orphanage dedicated to the memory of her late husband, an austere, unfaithful, and unpleasant man. Their son Oswald, who’d been sent away as a child to be protected from the inevitable scandals that would hit his father, returns home. His arrival comes with …
Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan lead a starry cast in a play that can't quite locate the fragile centre of the swirl of relationships in rural Russia…
It's impressive to have the same work showing at two companies simultaneously, and such is the case for Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 full-evening work Manon. The ballet is currently in season at the Paris Opera and also opened last night at the Royal Ballet and Opera. Leading the cast are Francesca Ha…
Doktor Arendt's ideas have never been more needed here than they are right now…
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody is simply hilarious. Dylan Marcaurele writes an abridged 75-minute run-through of the show where original songs coexist with referential numbers, creating an endlessly amusing and entertaining mix. The lyrics are so comically unpredictable that the pi…
Glyndebourne first opened its manicured doors with a production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and ninety two years later, the opera begins its fourth Autumn Season. A revival of last summer's breezy production, originally directed by Mariame Clément, it leans into the deceptively simple com…
