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The Exile Whose Work Is So Good That It Hurts
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective T his is a large and powerful exhibition – but it hurts. The artist has survived disaster. He has found his voice as a painter. His paintings are......
Chopin Is Dragged Out Of The Salon
Chopin Unwrapped The Gambler T here had a been a few observances already, including a scholarly forum in the Purcell Room; but Chopin Year (two centuries since his birth if you......
Siamese Twins, Raptors And The Fall Of Big Money
Enron E nron – a monument to corporate greed and creative accountancy – led to thousands losing their jobs and thousands more losing their life savings. Lucy Prebble’s fictional......
Jerusalem Johnny Rooster Brown, Gypsy, Trouble-maker And...
is a postmodern Puck, a subver sive knight in tarnished armour, a defiant crusader, a Falstaffian corruptor of youth, drugged up to the eyeballs, and facing eviction by the......
Waiting For Godot I Went. Perhaps You Will Have Better
luck. “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” This is not a criticism; it’s a quote from Samuel Beckett’s morality play on Christian themes. “I can’t go on......
Lord Arthur Savileʼs Crime Arthur, Learning That He Is...
to commit a murder, feels he has a duty to his fiancée to get the murder out of the way before the wedding. There have been any number of plays and films based on Oscar Wilde’s......
The Whisky Taster The Major Problem With The Casting Of
James Graham’s satire on advertising is that you don’t care whether the two young executives fall in love or not, because there is no chemistry between the actors. Samuel......
Lyric , Hammersmith The Year Marks Chekhov’s 150th...
as the year progresses, he will get much better birthday presents than this ghastly off-kilter production by Sean Holmes and the Filter Company, which has one sister speaking......