★★★★☆ The Birmingham Royal Ballet uses the 1960 Frederick Ashton choreography with music by John Lanchbery whose score is adapted from that of Ferdinand Hérold. Colourful settings by Osbert Lancaster and the excellent Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Barry Wordsworth complete the package.
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★★★☆☆ If any play can claim to be the ‘national play’ Henry V must rank among the contenders for top spot. Burnished by directors according to the mood and tenor of the time, the eponymous hero will have a character to suit . . . If the direction of travel for STF is one of experimentation and innovation on these lines we can only applaud and encourage
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★★★★★ Last night the good burghers of Schloss Süddorf were, by degrees, disorientated, terrified, excited and in one or two extreme cases overjoyed to a state of delirium by the results of Frau F’s demonic experiments.
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I’d be less than surprised if displayed somewhere in Sally Cookson’s study was the rubric, ‘Anything film can do I can do better with just imagination and people’. Ms. Cookson, with her accustomed imagination and gravity defying puissance has again exercised her ability to give the inner an outward reality.
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In another life Brian Clough might have been a court jester, telling truth to power, but the twinkle in his eye was not of the, ’Put that in your pipe and smoke it’, kind, rather, ‘I should be king rather than you’.
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