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MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
Sacred stars Khan and Guillem make sensational connection
Peter Lindley reviews Sacred Monsters at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1
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
In the lull before the storm of her impending retirement Sylvie Guillem reunited with Akram Khan for what could be the last time in Sacred Monsters.
First performed in 2006, the collaborative piece draws on the two very different dance traditions of kathak and ballet in exploring the advent of “the star” in mass culture, be it sporting or artistic, and the attendant media adulation.
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