CABARET at Laban Theatre
A dazzling central performance sent an already great production of the musical Cabaret into artistic orbit at Laban theatre and surely...
Miles Hedley
- Dec 4, 2018
- 1 min
PINOCCHIO at The Albany
It’s tough to find new ways of presenting a fairytale as well-known and well-loved as Pinocchio without spoiling its inherent charm but...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
ROBINSON CRUSOE at Greenwich Theatre
What possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course –...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 27, 2018
- 1 min
SIMON PURCELL at Oliver's
South-east London is blessed with a seemingly endless supply of talented young jazz musicians. One of the main reasons is the presence of...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 14, 2018
- 1 min
MARINA COLLARD at Laban Theatre
Dance, sound, film and light joined forces in choreographer Marina Collard’s existential investigation entitled What This Is, Is… at...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 12, 2018
- 1 min
JACK RAKE at Greenwich Gallery
A sale of paintings by brilliant amateur artist Jack Rake at the Greenwich Gallery has raised more than £11,500 for the charity Freedom...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 10, 2018
- 2 min
EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL at Blackheath Halls
The annual International Early Music Festival returned to newly revamped Blackheath Halls this year with its usual array of the unusual....
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
TO BE ME - JULIE CUNNINGHAM at Laban Theatre
Contemporary dance is like abstract expressionist art – both are pure forms of collaboration between creator and viewer. This thought...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 31, 2018
- 2 min
STEVE HOWE at The Albany
Any talk of living guitar heroes almost inevitably zooms in on Messrs Clapton, Beck and Page. But there are others who are just as...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
DENNIS OF PENGE at The Albany
Euripides may have been one of the inventors of playwriting nearly two and half millennia ago but his works are still relevant, as Dennis...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
TRINITY LABAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE at St Alfege’s
Trinity Laban Percussion Ensemble recitals are always a blast but I can’t recall one that made such an impression as today’s free...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 10, 2018
- 1 min
HERE at Greenwich Theatre
There was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
GRACEFOOL COLLECTIVE at Laban Theatre
This Really Is Too Much risked being exactly that – too much. Part dance, part spoken word, part slapstick, part feminist tract and all...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
MAT COLLISHAW at Queen's House
Unique is a dreadfully overused word but I can’t recall anything else that comes close to resembling Mask Of Youth, artist Mat...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
MAGIC REALISM IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC at Tate Modern
This is a small but perfectly formed exhibition that runs at Tate Modern till next July. You can get a real sense of it in about 20...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 25, 2018
- 2 min
CIRCULATE FESTIVAL at The Albany
Some of the most innovative public performance art I’ve ever seen graced Giffin Square, Deptford, over thee weekends in August. Four...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 21, 2018
- 1 min
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at St Alfege Park
My, how fortunate we are in Greenwich! Just ten days after a fabulous outdoor Measure For Measure at Severndroog Castle we were treated...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 16, 2018
- 1 min
THE JUNGLE BOOK at Greenwich Theatre
There weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 9, 2018
- 1 min
MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Severndroog Castle
I love the way drama company Changeling make theatre. Everything I’ve ever seen them do is heartfelt, real, immersive, leftfield – and...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 1, 2018
- 1 min
EIGENGRAU at Greenwich Theatre
It’s self-evident that a great play can be ruined by a below-par cast – no doubt we all have any number of examples in our memories. But...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 20, 2018
- 2 min
DIDO & AENEAS at The Albany
Blackheath Halls’ annual opera always has the community at its heart, with local residents and schoolkids performing alongside...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 17, 2018
- 1 min
K.R.U.M.P. MACBETH at Laban Theatre
Krump is a form of hiphop street dance from LA that features highly stylised moves designed to echo gang violence, so the bloody story of...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 16, 2018
- 1 min
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at The London Theatre
Shakespeare always seemed to know exactly what his audiences wanted. I reckon the London Theatre in New Cross does too, judging by its...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 5, 2018
- 1 min
TRINITY LABAN PERCUSSION QUARTET at St Alfege’s
What do a telly, a tea service, a broken umbrella and a copy of the Financial Times have in common? They were all used as musical...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
PATRICIA AUCHTERLONIE at Old Royal Naval College
You should always expect the unexpected at one of Trinity Laban’s free lunchtime recitals. And that was never truer than when soprano...
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Miles Hedley
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY at Laban Theatre
Life as a progression interrupted by brief encounters and occasional relapses was the theme of a Transitions Dance Company triple bill...
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Miles Hedley
- May 25, 2018
- 2 min
LILY NEILL at Mycenae House
Harp-playing bards were once so influential in Ireland that Elizabeth I notoriously ordered the island’s governor: “Hang the harpers...
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Miles Hedley
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
CARDUCCI QUARTET at St Alfege’s
The Carducci Quartet are one of the world’s finest ensembles – and their most recent recital, at St Alfege’s, showed why. The foursome...
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Miles Hedley
- May 20, 2018
- 1 min
ROSS ANDREWS: SEA IN THE CITY at Greenwich Gallery
We’re being spoilt for choice in Greenwich at the moment when it comes to seaside photography. Ordinarily, the show at the National...
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Miles Hedley
- May 17, 2018
- 1 min
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Greenwich Theatre
After the grisly horrors at the heart of Edward II and Lord Of The Flies, the decision by company-in-residence Lazarus to finish their...
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Miles Hedley
- May 15, 2018
- 1 min
BURY THE CHEESE at Old Royal Naval College
The great diarist Samuel Pepys famously buried his block of Parmesan before alerting his family when flames threatened to engulf his...
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Miles Hedley
- May 5, 2018
- 2 min
SHOW OF HANDS at Cutty Sark
Legend is a much overused word when talking about musicians. But it‘s an entirely appropriate one when describing folk/roots powerhouse...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 27, 2018
- 1 min
JESSE VAN RULLER at Oliver’s
Brilliant Dutch jazz guitarist Jesse van Ruller showed just why he has such a towering international reputation when he played sell-out...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 22, 2018
- 2 min
DANCE: CLARK, UCHENNA, D’ARQUIAN at Building 17, The Albany & Laban
In just the past week in Greenwich I have seen works by Robert Clark, Uchenna Dance and Tara D’Arquian, each of which explored different...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 22, 2018
- 3 min
THE GREAT BRITISH SEASIDE at National Maritime Museum
The legendary photographer Tony Ray-Jones once called this country’s passion for the beach a “gentle madness” and the quote greets you as...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
LORD OF THE FLIES at Greenwich Theatre
Ever think acting is easy? Then you should have seen the performance of Lord Of The Flies that I saw at Greenwich Theatre. The young cast...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 8, 2018
- 1 min
BUTTERFLY’S WING at Blackheath Halls
The children of jazz legends who choose to follow in their parents’ footsteps have to face a lifetime of comparisons, often to their...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 7, 2018
- 1 min
THE GIRLS IN THE MAGNESIUM DRESS at Queen’s House
The gorgeous great hall of the Queen’s House reverberated with the mellow, if unusual, tones of a double bass and harp duo working their...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
DEAD AND BREATHING at The Albany
This coruscating two-hander at the Albany offered a near-perfect theatrical experience – a terrific play, great direction, a fine set and...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 3, 2018
- 1 min
TRUMPAGEDDON at Greenwich Theatre
Many satirise Donald Trump but most fail because the man’s so homophobic, so mysogenistic, so racist, so paranoid and so egotistical that...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 2, 2018
- 1 min
TRINITY LABAN PERCUSSION at St Alfege’s
Any concert featuring three drum-kits is unusual, so one set in a church must be close to unique. But that’s the beauty of the free...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 27, 2018
- 1 min
WAYNE MCGREGOR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban Theatre
World-famous choreographer Wayne McGregor has spent 25 years probing the mysteries of the human soul. His new work, Autobiography, takes...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 19, 2018
- 1 min
TRINITY LABAN BRASS ENSEMBLES at St Alfege’s
I used to think I didn’t like brass band music, even though I always adored the sound of a Stax horn section. But age has mostly shown me...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 16, 2018
- 1 min
EDWARD II at Greenwich Theatre
There was a great opening to Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II at Greenwich Theatre. To an electronica soundtrack the cast, in...
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