David Benedict
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Four Quartets, Harold Pinter Theatre review - brilliant Fien...
Words flow like water in TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, shimmering with allusion, swirling...
Giltburg, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review...
Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé were making something of a...
A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic review - not quite a festive-...
Four years and a Broadway run on from its Old Vic debut,...
Album: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante - Still Moving
Adams has long been Robert Plant’s guitarist in bands including the Sensational...
The Beatles: Get Back, Disney+ review - 1969 revisited in Pe...
A caption tells us that while filming the Beatles at...
Manor, National Theatre review – ambitious, but unconvincing
After all the tides of monologue plays have ebbed, British new writing is now paddling in the pools of state-of-the-nation drama. At the Royal...
Past Present, Linbury Theatre review - historic, but very mu...
Not so long ago, a few decades at most, anyone with a passing interest in dance knew what “modern” looked like. It was earthbound, usually...
House Of Gucci review – gloriously gawdy trash
Back in 2013, Gina Gershon chewed up the scenery in the daytime movie House of Versace. Focusing on the murder of Gianni Versace, it was...
Album: Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Georgia Blue
Jason Isbell is a bigger noise on the other side of the Atlantic than he is in the UK but his last three albums have, nonetheless, bothered the...
The Comedy of Errors, RSC, Barbican review - Shakespearean C...
“Am I myself?” At the tangled centre of Shakespeare’s comedy of two pairs of identical twins, servant Dromio asks the question on which everything...