WHAT SONGS MAY DO… at Laban theatre
The ellipse in the title of Rendez-Vous Dance’s mesmerising What Songs May Do… suggests multiple possibilities. By implication, it also...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 30, 2022
- 4 min
FEST EN FEST in Deptford
Great art thrives within the constraints of convention. But great art – whether words, dance, image or music - can also soar into the...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC in and around Blackheath Halls
There’s a beguiling paradox at the heart of the annual London International Festival of Early Music – an unfailing ability to give a...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
CANDIDE by Blackheath Halls Opera
Singing an exacting aria is a tough ask on its own but to do it while clowning is surely near-impossible. Yet that is the challenge...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 27, 2022
- 2 min
VOICES FROM WINDRUSH at Greenwich Theatre
Controversy tends to provoke increasingly extreme reactions. But as Voices From Windrush at Greenwich Theatre showed, a more measured...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
THE GRETCHEN QUESTION at The Shipwright, Deptford
The Gretchen Question couldn’t have a more serious theme – the catastrophe facing our planet due to manmade climate change. But rather...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR at the National Maritime Museum
One hundred images make up the final selection of the annual Astronomy Photographer Of The Year award - and all of them are currently on...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 13, 2022
- 5 min
GREENWICH+DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL across east and south-east London
The theme of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival was Common Ground, a concept given the greatest possible poignancy...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
CHANGELING THEATRE at Severndroog Castle
For a masterclass in the actor’s art, Changeling Theatre’s two-night, two-play sojourn in the grounds of Severndroog Castle was the real...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
GFMA COMMONWEALTH FESTIVAL at Charlton Park
As a nation we love a good party – just look at the thousands of public and private beanos to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. So a...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
ALLY IN WONDERLAND at Lesnes Abbey
Everything about Ruined Theatre’s Ally In Wonderland is not only entertaining but also really clever because it works on so many levels....
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
END-OF-YEAR DANCE SHOWS at Trinity Laban
The tropical heat outside may have been close to unbearable but inside the wonderfully air-conditioned Laban building the only heat was...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
AN INTERVENTION at Greenwich Theatre
Two fine performances are at the heart of Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention at Greenwich Theatre – and they needed to be good because the...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
STROZZI! at Blackheath Halls
Barbara Strozzi is one of those composers who isn’t known nearly well enough, primarily because society has such a shocking history of...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
SUN+SEA at The Albany
Sun & Sea, a multiple award-winning opera that is being given its UK premiere by The Albany, is like nothing else you’ll ever see, an...
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Miles Hedley
- May 25, 2022
- 1 min
SUMMER HOLIDAYS at Greenwich Theatre
Writer Mike Bartlett is just about the hottest name in theatrical circles at the moment so it’s quite a coup for Greenwich Theatre to be...
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Miles Hedley
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
SUN & SEA at The Albany
In a summer of extraordinary events in south-east London, the Albany is offering its own unique contribution by hosting the British...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
CANALETTO’S VENICE REVISITED at the National Maritime Museum
Canaletto’s paintings of Venice are among the most famous and instantly recognisable images in all art. So how do you present them in a...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
A CHANGE OF SEASON at the National Maritime Museum
What a stunning idea to create a concert programme teaming Vivaldi’s joyful Four Seasons with Melting Shifting Liquid World, Hollie...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 19, 2022
- 1 min
YOU HEARD ME at The Albany
On a Tuesday afternoon in February 2019 Luca Rutherford went for a run before she was due to do a show in Hull. It was part of her...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
COLAB 2022 at St Alfege’s, Old Royal Naval College and Blackheath Halls
One of the most beguiling aspects of CoLab, the annual festival of musical exploration driven and performed by Trinity Laban students, is...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
TRINITY LABAN BA3 DANCE SHOWS at Laban
Dance is a great medium for tackling themes of any magnitude. For example, the range explored in New Choreography Now, a mixed bill...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
JARMAN at Greenwich Theatre
Visionary film-maker Derek Jarman became the ultimate icon of iconoclasm before his life was cruelly cut short by AIDS. Yet he packed...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
EACH ONE CANCELS THE LAST (HECTOR) at Blackheath Halls
We live in a world where knowledge is power, where we know so much. But we should never underestimate the power of the mysterious, for it...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
ALARMS & EXCURSIONS at Greenwich Theatre
It was a brave choice for Greenwich Theatre to take on Alarms & Excursions, Michael Frayn’s comedy about our ever-growing reliance on...
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