Grand operas on tour can be great unwieldy monsters, hugely expensive to stage and with eye-watering ticket prices to match. Not so where Pop-Up Opera are concerned, for they specialise in making opera more accessible and welcoming to a wider audience than is normally associated with this ‘elitist’ art form. Less grand perhaps, but a great deal more user-friendly.
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This year, thanks to the support of the Spielman Trust, the BOVTS was able to present its Graduating Showcase in a proper theatre setting, and Principal Paul Rummer was delighted to see that St George’s was packed out for the occasion. The BOVTS is in its seventieth year, and in that time it has accumulated an enormously impressive list of past students . . .
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If you were wondering whether or not to see Tusk Tusk at The Alma but were hesitant about doing so because it is about children, be reassured. Yes, it features very young actors in all of its main roles, but it is very far from being a ‘children’s play’. Polly Stenham has written an unflinching examination of middle-class domestic dysfunction and parental neglect. She lays bare the emotional chaos that can churn away hidden in leafy suburbia, and no Mary Poppins comes to rescue these children. She lays bare the emotional chaos that can churn away hidden in leafy suburbia . . .
Read MoreBreathing Corpses is certainly a play that needs to be delivered with a considerable degree of expertise, for it is far from straightforward. It has a teasingly complex narrative structure and there are mysteries that are never fully resolved. It is full of hints that apparently disconnected characters and events may in fact be closely associated, and we are invited to make links between such themes as death and sex, but these are not made explicit.
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For over a year and a half Sharp Teeth Theatre have been presenting monthly shows on Sunday nights that bring together storytelling, poetry, music and, of course, theatre. The aim is clearly to be as varied, inclusive and accessible as possible, a strategy exemplified by their ‘pay what you decide’ policy. The presentational style is determinedly informal and relaxed; this is the antithesis of elitist theatre.
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