THE WAR INSIDE at The Albany
Humour can be a devastatingly effect tool when examining human anguish. And there are few better examples of this truth than Camille...
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2023
Miles Hedley
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
SEMELE at Blackheath Halls
Blackheath Halls Opera seemed to have found the perfect combination of the heavenly, the human and the humorous in their triumphant 2022...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 12
- 4 min
GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in east and south-east London
You needed to be a glass-half-full type of person during the opening days of the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival as the rain...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 10
- 2 min
GDIF: THE ARCHITECT on Deptford-Woolwich bus
The artistic team behind The Architect insist this promenade production aboard a double-decker London bus is not about Stephen Lawrence...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 24
- 2 min
CINDERELLA at Greenwich Theatre
Walt Disney has a lot to answer for with his relentless airbrushing of old world folk tales. Take Cinderella, for example. Yes, the ugly...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 11
- 3 min
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL & LOVE’S LABOURS LOST at Severndroog Castle
Changeling Theatre’s much-loved annual summer tour once again included two open-air nights in the magical setting of the woods that...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 6
- 2 min
PETER PAN & THE BATTLE FOR NEVERLAND at Lesnes Abbey
They say comedy is harder to write than tragedy. But for my money the toughest challenge of all is writing something that appeals to...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 12
- 2 min
BA3 COMMISSIONED WORKS at Laban Theatre
The ability to move easily between the infinite and the quotidian is at the heart of all great art. But few artforms can do it quite so...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 28
- 1 min
VINCENT RIVER at Greenwich Theatre
To see a masterclass in acting, hurry along to Greenwich Theatre and watch Vincent River, Philip Ridley’s pulsating one-act drama about...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 27
- 2 min
TRY ME, GOOD KING at the Queen’s House
Greenwich was the epicentre of murderous intrigue in Tudor England, so there’s surely no better place to examine the life and legacy of...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 22
- 3 min
ROD KITSON at The Art Of Isolation, Surrey Quays
The best art exhibitions always have a real sense of theatre with their emotion-racking drama, their absorbing cast of characters, their...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 15
- 2 min
EMERGENCE at Laban theatre
Only an initial vowel separates motion and emotion yet the two are inextricably entwined, as all great dance – classical or contemporary...
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Miles Hedley
- May 26
- 2 min
PINTER DOUBLE BILL at Greenwich Theatre
There’s a simple test to establish whether or not you’re a Harold Pinter fan: Do you consider those (in)famous scripted ellipses to be...
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Miles Hedley
- May 22
- 2 min
THE MERSEY BEATLES at Woolwich Works
For an evening of joyful nostalgia, The Mersey Beatles’ gig at Woolwich Works was hard to, well, beat. And age was no barrier to loving...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 11
- 3 min
OUR CONNECTION TO WATER at the National Maritime Museum
If you want a perfect example of how less is more, check out the gorgeous exhibition Our Connection To Water now on at the Insight...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 27
- 3 min
THE VAN DE VELDES: GREENWICH, ART AND THE SEA at the Queen’s House
Everyone’s heard of Rembrandt, so why isn’t his compatriot and contemporary Willem van de Velde, who was recognised in his day as a...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 27
- 3 min
COLAB 2023 at Laban, ORNC, St Alfege’s, Blackheath Halls & Queen’s House
Over the course of a fortnight, Trinity Laban students created and publicly performed programmes inspired by a breathtaking range of...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 18
- 2 min
THE RAGGED-TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS at Greenwich Theatre
There’s a key moment in writer-performer Neil Gore’s masterful adaptation of the Edwardian socialist polemic The Ragged Trousered...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 12
- 2 min
BA3 COMMISSIONED WORKS at Trinity Laban
Contrast is a powerful tool of artistic expression in any medium, as even a glimpse of a Caravaggio painting or a snatch of bel canto...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 6
- 2 min
SPRING SEASON at The Albany
After the Albany’s triumphant pivotal role in Lewisham’s term as London Borough of Culture 2022, the Albany is underscoring its...
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Miles Hedley
- May 13, 2022
- 2 min
THE BURNT CITY at One Cartridge Place, Woolwich
If you want to know why Punchdrunk leads the world in making theatre that is epic, immersive and immaculate, look no further than the...
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