THE LITTLE PRINCE at Woolwich Works
Luca Silvestrini pulled out all the stops when he decided to adapt The Little Prince for his company Protein Dance by turning what was...
Miles Hedley
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Old Royal Naval College
We all know A Christmas Carol – indeed, most people are likely to have enjoyed dozens of versions of Charles Dickens’ matchless tale of...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS at Greenwich Theatre
A real test of how good a panto is to try it out at 10 o’clock on a freezing November morning more than a month before Christmas in front...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 14, 2021
- 4 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels
The odds on this year’s London International Festival Of Early Music returning to Blackheath as a live event must have seemed at times...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
DONUTS at The Albany
As we walked into the auditorium at the Albany to see the new dance work Donuts, three young women on stage were scrunched up together on...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
SAINTS & SINNERS at Mycenae House
Music from the Cross to the crossroads, promised guitarist Ben Tyzack as Saints & Sinners took to the stage at Mycenae House. And he...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
ROD KITSON: BLUE LOTUS at the Art of Isolation gallery
Symbols have always mesmerised our species. One of the world’s oldest artworks is an ivory lion-man carved 40,000 years ago, millions of...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Blackheath Halls
Any concert by Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra will always be memorable for the awesome musicianship of its young members. If it’s then...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
THE DIGITAL HOME via The Albany
Theatre matters. The world may be reeling under an apparently unceasing rain of disasters and setbacks – global warming, the Covid...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
UNKNOWN at Greenwich Theatre
How does a writer create a fury-driven polemic without seeming to batter an audience into submission? The line that separates engagement...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 29, 2021
- 2 min
VENUS AND ADONIS at Blackheath Halls
John Blow’s 17th century work Venus And Adonis, reputedly the first English opera, contains music that is never less than blissful - but...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 28, 2021
- 0 min
TIGER LADY at Greenwich Theatre
As we arrived at Greenwich Theatre to see Tiger Lady we were greeted by the cast wandering around the auditorium offering shots,...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 26, 2021
- 0 min
NEW REGENCY ORCHESTRA at Woolwich Works
It was appropriate that the Fireworks Factory stage should be the setting for the New Regency Orchestra to play the first public gig at...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
GREENWICH & DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2021
The true psychological cost of lockdown may not be known for years. But we do know it’ll be high and we’ll need all the help we can get...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
EN ROUTE in Woolwich
Protein Dance’s latest creation, En Route, is a dazzling investigation into the possibilities of live performance. Its essence is, as...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Severndroog Castle
If you like your Shakespeare accessible, it’s hard to beat A Midsummer Night’s Dream with its lovers, fairies, music, wonderfully...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 27, 2021
- 2 min
BAD NIGHTS AND ODD DAYS at Greenwich Theatre
They may be 40 to 50 years old but, as a brilliant new Greenwich Theatre production of four of Caryl Churchill’s early plays reveals,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 17, 2021
- 5 min
GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2021
The annual delight that is the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival pulled off an amazing coup in its 25th outing last summer. It...
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Miles Hedley
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
TUDORS TO WINDSORS at the National Maritime Museum
You don’t have to be an arch-monarchist to enjoy Tudors To Windsors, an exhibition celebrating 500 years of royal portraiture which runs...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE at Greenwich Theatre online
The After-Dinner Joke, Caryl Churchill’s great satire on corporate philanthropism, may be 43 years old but shockingly, as director James...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
COLAB 2021 online at Trinity Laban
Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
VISIONS AS OUR EXILE The Albany online
Open Source Collaborations, a pioneering lockdown project launched by The Albany and Foreign Body Productions to help emerging artists...
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