ASH Smyth
Bio
ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".
Articles By ASH Smyth
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Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts review - she is a human being
Roger Michell’s films described a range of Englishness, from Notting Hill’s foppish comedy to acerbically humane Hanif Kureishi scripts...
Girl on an Altar, Kiln Theatre review - machismo, murder and...
Playwrights return to classical myths for two main reasons – to shine a light on how we live today and because they're bloody good yarns.
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First Person: Christina McMaster - seeking musical cures for...
In 2020, during a gentle easing of lockdown restrictions, I was asked to play for the Culture Clinic sessions at Kings Place, a creative...
Album: Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon
Crispy Moon is a musical kaleidoscope encompassing free-jazz skronk,...
Between Two Worlds review - Juliette Binoche, maid in Franc...
For die-hard Juliette Binoche fans – don’t cross us, we get angry – Between Two Worlds is heaven. The...
Samson et Dalila, Royal Opera review - from austerity to exc...
Words and situations are one-dimensional, but the music is chameleonic, if not profound, and crafted with a master’s hand. What to do about ...
Henry VIII, Shakespeare's Globe review - unashamedly vu...
Boris Johnson was of course not the first British leader to engineer a split with Europe for...
Luzzu review - a Maltese fisherman struggles with modernity
In Maltese-American Alex Camilleri’s debut feature, it’s a case of follow the swordfish. This terrifically atmospheric, almost documentary-like...
Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter review - room for compli...
In this best-selling Korean novella, recently translated into English by Jamie Chang, Kim...