Sebastian Scotney
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Jazz Voice, Royal Festival Hall - engulfing beauty and hidde...
Jazz Voice unfailingly supplies a gigantic sugar-rush of auditory pleasure, and this year’s edition was no exception. Arranged, scored and...
Orphée, English National Opera review – through a screen dar...
Like almost everything that it touches these days, English National Opera’s autumn season of shows rooted in the Orpheus myth has enjoyed a fairly...
'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer...
In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard...
The Report review - searing political drama
It should come as no surprise that the writer of Side Effects...
Craig David, BBC Radio 2 review - what's your flava?
My friend, let’s call her Kit, is having a rubbish time. Kat (that’s me) is too. If life’s got a flavour, it’s a shade darker than 99% cocoa. Kit...
CD: Iguana Death Cult - Nude Casino
The contemporary context of the Netherlands’s Iguana Death Cult is...
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?, Jewish Museum London r...
For a loved one to die by suicide provokes both pain and hurt. Pain, because they are gone. Hurt, because it can feel like an indictment or a...
The Accident, Series Finale, Channel 4 review - ambitious mi...
Channel 4’s The Accident closed with a bang and a...
Touching the Void, Duke of York's Theatre review - not...
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson'...