Orfeo ed Euridice

The video is a little fuzzy, the recording of the orchestra rather scratchy. Then the words break through: “Euridice… Euridice… Euridice,” not loud but somehow

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40/40

The usual method used when staging autobiographical plays (determining one’s sexuality, reaching a turning point in life) is to perform a monologue. Katherina Radeva on

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Othello

It is tempting to let the character Iago dominate the play Othello. He leads the action, shapes the tragedy and speaks aloud about his motives

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Hole

As most people over the age of 30 can tell you, there is a great yawning chasm of anxiety and depression writ large through the

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My Fair Lady

Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady is so well-known and loved, most people can sing chunks of the score from memory. Which makes it a

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Something Different

When the spark flickers in a relationship and threatens to go out, what’s to be done? The solution to reigniting the conjugal flame in Keith

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Ariadne auf Naxos

Richard Strauss was not one to stand still, and this very different follow-up to Der Rosenkavalier is one of the most curious operas ever written,

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Lord of the Flies

More than 20 years have elapsed since I studied Lord of the Flies at school, and I must admit that it’s not a book I

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Medieval Miracles

This is the last spring tour for outgoing the Artistic Director and founder of Eastern Angles, and so Ivan Cutting has chosen a subject that

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Girl from the North Country

In the programme notes, writer and director Conor McPherson describes Girl From the North Country as “a conversation between the songs and the story”. Having

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