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Peter Forbes

Articles By Peter Forbes

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Tom Dale Company, The Place review - immersive and genre-bus...

With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...

Mansfield Park, RNCM, Manchester review - bringing out the b...

Mansfield Park was written to be a country house opera – that...

Album: A Certain Ratio - 1982

1982 is only A Certain Ratio’s third album this century but it’s one that’s brimming with funky vibes that are more than enough to get...

Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...

How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...

Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...

As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....

Seraphina Madsen: Aurora review - the tarot won’t save us

“There is another world… a way of perceiving that is chaotic and awesome and terrifying,” announces Seraphina Madsen’s cigarillo-smoking,...

Blu-ray: Kamikaze Hearts

Last month’s Storyville: Sex on Screen (available on BBC iPlayer) was a slick, speedy (and repetitive) canter through the...

Great Expectations, BBC One review - modernised, muddied and...

There’s no point in being upset with the writer Steven...

The Dead City, English National Opera review - strong dream...

Is Korngold a second-rank composer with some first-rate ideas? Most performances of the 23-year-old Viennese prodigy's Die tote Stadt...

Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful vis...

Last night at the Barbican was my first experience of a...