MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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Dance: Woolf Works wonders
Woolf Works
Royal Opera House
London WC2
5/5
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
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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