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Ismene Brown

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Dr Ismene Brown designed and launched the original version of The Arts Desk in 2009, and was the Site Coordinator and a board director for three years, as well as its dance editor. A musician trained at the Royal College of Music, she has been dance critic for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and has also written for TAD on classical music, theatre, TV and film. Since then she has gained an MA at UCL and DPhil at Oxford University for work on the Soviet politician and arts minister Ekaterina Furtseva.

Articles By Ismene Brown

Travesties, Apollo Theatre Thursday, 16 February 2017 Read more...	This House, Garrick Theatre Saturday, 03 December 2016 Read more...
Conceal/Reveal, Russell Maliphant Company, Messums Barn Monday, 28 November 2016 Read more...	All My Sons, Rose Theatre, Kingston Monday, 07 November 2016 Read more...
As You Like It, The Savill Garden, Windsor Monday, 27 June 2016 Read more...	King John, Rose Theatre, Kingston Saturday, 21 May 2016 Read more...
Toast, Rose Theatre, Kingston Friday, 12 February 2016 Read more...	Yolanda Sonnabend: designer of MacMillan's 'neurotic' ballets Monday, 16 November 2015 Read more...
Henry V, RSC, Barbican Theatre Friday, 13 November 2015 Read more...	Tchaikovsky Competition Winners Tour Friday, 30 October 2015 Read more...
Ex Kirov ballet chief takes not-so-Bolshoi job Wednesday, 28 October 2015 Read more...	An Open Book: Michael Hulls Saturday, 05 September 2015 Read more...
Bolshoi Ballet acid attack leader loses his job Friday, 31 July 2015 Read more...	Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe Friday, 24 July 2015 Read more...
Q&A Special: Pianist Lucas Debargue Saturday, 11 July 2015 Read more...	King Lear, Northern Broadsides, Touring Monday, 25 May 2015 Read more...

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