PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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Dance: Woolf Works wonders
Woolf Works
Royal Opera House
London WC2
5/5
LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S novels Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, along with extracts from her letters, essays and diaries, are the source material for this new work by the great choreographer Wayne McGregor.
In collaboration with composer-musician Max Richter, he’s come up with a thrilling interpretation of the literary source material.
It’s a spectacular triptych which homes in on micro-moments of emotion and tragedy in the writings, with the sensual narrative drive of I Now, I Then a departure from McGregor’s usual adventures in abstraction.
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