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MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
Anniversary dance amazes
Peter Lindley reviews the Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1/Touring
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
5/5
Richard Alston’s company marks it 20th anniversary with this production of four richly diverse works, choreographed by Alston and Martin Lawrence, who some regard as his natural successor.
The latter is responsible for Burning, inspired by the music and febrile love life of composer Franz Liszt, in which Liam Riddick and Nancy Nerantzi’s duet to the Dante Sonata thrillingly captures the thrust and thunder of all-consuming passion.
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