MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
The knack for immediate bonding with the audience
CHRISTINE LINDEY is enthralled by this double offering from her favourite choreographer who wants his work to be experienced from the gut
Double Murder: The Fix
[Todd MacDonald]
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
BASED in Britain, Hofesh Shechter’s small, company of 10 international dancers enthrals with its high energy, humour and showmanship, peppered with poignant reminders of man’s cruelty to man.
Shechter created an immediate bond with the audience by appearing alone on stage,dressed in cream street clothes, to welcome us back to the theatre darkened by many months of Covid-enforced darkness.
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