Hilary Summers: ‘If you don’t know each other well enough to say if something is a bit rubbish, then what’s the point?’Claire Newman Williams Back in the summer of 2020 when the arts industry was largely dormant and many professional singers were either moodily knocking back the gin or uploading poor quality phone videos of… Continue reading First Person: contralto Hilary Summers on going beyond her baroque and contemporary comfort zones
Month: February 2024
First Person: pioneering juggler Sean Gandini reflects on how the spirit of Pina Bausch has infiltrated his work
Carnation libation: Julie Anne Stanzak among the 8,000 individually placed blooms in the early Pina Bausch classic, ‘Nelken’ photo: Alexander Gouliaev I am a juggler. My wife Kati Ylä-Hokkala is also a juggler. Our life for the last three decades has been juggling. We have been fortunate to be practising this art form at a… Continue reading First Person: pioneering juggler Sean Gandini reflects on how the spirit of Pina Bausch has infiltrated his work
Till the Stars Come Down, National Theatre review – exuberant comedy with a dark edge
The National Theatre is meant to represent the whole nation – and not just the metropolitan middle classes. So it’s really good to see that Beth Steel – who comes from an East Midlands working-class background and was once writer in residence at this flagship venue – is having her latest play staged here in… Continue reading Till the Stars Come Down, National Theatre review – exuberant comedy with a dark edge
LADS ON THE ISLAND
Two hours before ‘lights up’ on Lads on the Island, a southerly squall hit Wellington complete with thunder claps – an appropriate curtain raiser for a play that takes flight from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. On the face of it, a play about a couple of blokes isolating on an island so one can support the other through… Continue reading LADS ON THE ISLAND