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Two new Hamlets off the tellyFriday, 14 May 2010It's an axiom trotted out in the acting profession that a young male actor measures himself against the role of Hamlet, much as an older one does with Lear. It's been announced this week that a couple more are having a stab at the Prince of Denmark... Read more... |
Henze attends his own ElegyTuesday, 11 May 2010
Many of us younger opera-goers have never had a chance until now to see Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers in action. Opinions have been divided on its status as one of the great operas of the last half-century, but it certainly brought out... Read more... |
Eurydice, Young Vic TheatreTuesday, 11 May 2010
Since Eurydice was the ill-fated wife of Orpheus, master musician, it’s not inappropriate that this reworking of the classical myth by the award-winning US writer Sarah Ruhl should be so much like a song. Her language has a kind of blunt lyricism,... Read more... |
Sweet Nothings, Young VicFriday, 05 March 2010
Arthur Schnitzler belonged to a culture of inquiry and experiment, in which dreams and desire were crying out to be articulated and delineated; sexual needs were the unexplored stuff of life - how well Vienna painters like Klimt and Schiele knew... Read more... |
Interview: Opera and Theatre Director Luc BondyThursday, 04 March 2010
Last September Luc Bondy watched his name speed around the world, if not for the most desirable reasons. His Tosca opened the season at the Met, a more grounded, less opulent replacement for one of the opera house’s many much loved productions by... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Annie Get Your Gun, Young VicFriday, 16 October 2009Keith Pattison took photographs of Richard Jones's new production of Annie Get Your Gun for the Young Vic. Read Matt Wolf's review here.Click on a photograph to enter full view. [bg|/THEATRE/young_vic_annie] All photographs for the Young Vic by... Read more... |
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