Susanna Hurrell
Articles By Susanna Hurrell
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
![Tight-knit ensemble: Anjli Mohindra, Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee, Romola Garai, Harmony Rose-Bremner in 'The Years'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Years%201.jpg?itok=Tc5XqxSD)
Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman’s life across time and space, history and memory, through...
![Bringing unhinged joy](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/NINA_CONTI_LIVE-07236%28Credit_Paul%20Gilbey%29.jpg?itok=G1I9o9NW)
“I really am the repository for all your shit,” Nina Conti’s famous Monkey hand puppet tells her. Monkey may have a point.
The brilliance of...
![Folk and furious: Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Plínio Fernandes, Hadewych van Gent](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/noisenight198%20braimah_plinio_hadewych-3%20%281%29.jpg?itok=0h5c1mgB)
It was the sonically adventurous, shiveringly atmospheric cello piece by Latvian composer Preteris Vasks that proved to be the first showstopper...
![Deus ex machina: Dionysus (Tommy Franzén) takes pity on grieving Ariadne (Kristen McNally) in Minotaur](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Tommy%20Franze%CC%81n%20%28Dionysus%29%20and%20Kristen%20McNally%20%28Ariadne%29%20in%20Minotaur%20%C2%A92025%20Tristram%20Kenton%20%281%29.jpg?itok=GHMuDnZY)
Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with events in our modern world...
![The Lurkers in 1978. Left to right: Pete “Manic Esso” Haynes, Nigel Moore, Pete Stride and Howard Wall.](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/The%20Lurkers_header_1000.jpg?itok=SVrHqgvo)
On its own, the second session The Lurkers recorded for the BBC’s John Peel show on 18 April 1978 is arguably a curio, a footnote. Four tracks of...
![Creator of a musical metaphor for hidden things: Héloïse Werner](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Hidden%20Mechanisms%20with%20He%CC%81loi%CC%88se%20Werner%20%E2%80%93%20alternate%20%28Plain%2016x9%29.jpg?itok=FzCv2wyV)
When a piece of music is heard for the first time ever, there’s always the delicious hope that, just by being there, an audience might witness...
![Exquisite contrast: Christina Gansch (Susanna) and Michael Mofidian (Figaro)](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Figaro%201_0.jpg?itok=VEZ2X_Hl)
Drained as they are at present of crucial funds, WNO are managing to...
![New on Le Bloc: author Jacqueline Feldman](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Jacqueline%20Feldman%20credit%20Amelia%20Golden%20%281%29-min_0.jpg?itok=6hSqqc97)
Taking on some of the contingent, nebulous quality of its subject, Jacqueline Feldman’s ...