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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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