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
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
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
- Dec 4, 2022
- 2 min
ROBIN HOOD at Greenwich Theatre
After more than a decade of legendary damehood, Andrew Pollard’s departure as star, writer and director of Greenwich Theatre’s revered...
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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 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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Miles Hedley
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
DREAMACHINE at Woolwich Public Market
It’s almost impossible to describe the extraordinary immersive experience that is Dreamachine, now on at Woolwich Public Market, without...
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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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Miles Hedley
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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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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