THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE online with Greenwich Theatre
The Christmas lockdown forced Greenwich Theatre to close its doors days before its production of the children’s classic The Wolves Of...
Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN in Greenwich, Deptford and online
The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC Online with headline concerts filmed in Blackheath
Online arts are playing a vital role in keeping up our spirits and feeding our souls during the Covid lockdown. And while no one would...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
CHAMBER MUSIC WEEK FINALE at Blackheath Halls and online
It was a daunting task – to cover 900 years of western music from 12th century sacred monophony to 21st century jazz in one afternoon...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC Online, with concerts filmed in Blackheath
There’s so much to love about the annual London International Festival of Early Music – amazing musicians, an astonishing array of rare...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 11, 2020
- 1 min
CHARLES HAYWARD VERSUS HARMERGEDDON at The Albany
South-east London is a crucible of cultural excellence and one of its most shimmering ingredients is the phenomenon that is Charles...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE RAKE’S PROGRESS Blackheath Halls Opera
The annual Blackheath Halls Opera is always a highlight of the cultural year in south-east London and it’s also a favourite with readers...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
ADRIAN LEGG at Mycenae House
Any gig featuring a true virtuoso is going to be a treat. But sometimes the musical virtuosity is mirrored by a gift for story-telling...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 13, 2020
- 4 min
GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2020
Considering the country was in deep lockdown only a few weeks ago, it’s amazing that the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
SEVERNDROOG CASTLE FESTIVAL
Severndroog Castle mirrored its status as Greenwich’s most beautiful hidden gem with the brilliance of its creative programme when it...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
THE HOUSE THAT SLIPPED at The Albany and live on Zoom
There were a great many pleasures to be had in The House That Slipped, a witty and wise lockdown show devised, written and performed by...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
FROM MY ROOM ORCHESTRA Trinity Laban YouTube channel
Early in lockdown, Trinity Laban launched a pioneering season of works created and performed by students and staff self-isolating at...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
THE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA Greenwich Theatre YouTube channel
Steven Berkoff’s play The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia could have been written for lockdown – an exchange of 39 claustrophobically...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
VOICES IN THE DARK Greenwich Theatre
Covid-19 has forced creatives across the arts to find new forms of expression. And Greenwich Theatre’s latest contribution to online...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
THE ART OF ISOLATION at Surrey Quays
Grayson Perry’s Art Club was a highlight of lockdown telly. Now Southwark-based painter Rod Kitson has gone one better by not only...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
PRELUDES TO NEW LIGHTS FESTIVAL Trinity Laban online
Music is a global language, a truth that has been underscored by its primacy around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown. And no one...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
GRIMMS COLLECTING AGENCY - UNDER LOCKDOWN by Teatro Vivo on YouTube
Teatro Vivo’s long-running promenade theatre thread Grimms Collecting Agency has illuminated the local arts scene for many years with...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 7, 2020
- 2 min
ARRAY FESTIVAL moved online from the Albany
Covid-19 scuppered any hope that Array, a two-night festival of immersive ambisonic sound and colour, would be staged at the Albany....
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Miles Hedley
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
MASS HYSTERIA on Trinity Laban YouTube channel
At what must be one of the weirdest times most of us has ever experienced, all-female dance collective Mass Hysteria have conjured up a...
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Miles Hedley
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
1:3:5:7 by Dominic Murcott
Music’s a source of comfort and inspiration at the best of times. At times like this, with the country in the grip of Covid-19, it comes...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
FROM MY ROOM ORCHESTRA at Trinity Laban
There’s a plethora of terrific cultural events out there in cyberspace to help us cope with self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
DELAGO DUO LIVE on Facebook
There have already been so many great online performances by artists to offer rays of hope amid the gloom of Covid 19 and the latest...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min
I, ELIZABETH at Cutty Sark
In a world where vainglory and average intelligence pass for talent among our leaders, it’s hard to imagine today just how extraordinary...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
CANDOCO DANCE at Laban
Like all great art, dance requires no explanation – it simply demands that we open our hearts and minds to a transcendent experience. And...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
MACBETH at Greenwich Theatre
Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
COLAB 2020 in Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford, New Cross and Southwark
Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 16, 2020
- 2 min
POLLY (THE HEARTBREAK OPERA) at Greenwich Theatre
It’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 13, 2020
- 4 min
FACES OF A QUEEN & WOBURN TREASURES at the Queen’s House
It‘s almost inconceivable that the exhibition now on at the Queen’s House – three Armada portraits of Elizabeth I and 27 treasures from...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
FEST EN FEST in Greenwich, Deptford and New Cross
Fest en Fest is a dance event like no other, concerning itself over three days with the evolution of dance in a series of discussions,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
FIRE BIRD at The Yard
Fire bird, a new work by Julie Cunningham, is quite simply electrifying. It not only blazes a trail for contemporary dance while...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban theatre
© Andrej Uspenski Life is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes, emotional swings and, ultimately, a realisation that our very uniqueness...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
DR FAUSTUS at Greenwich Theatre
Splendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
SLEEPING BEAUTY at Greenwich Theatre
One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...
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