Brighton Year-Round
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Brighton Year-Round 2020
Family Album is possibly the most disastrous production this already unfortunate play has ever sustained. More, Coward would declare it’s a travesty; of genius. Hands Across the Sea is pitch-perfect in a slightly outré version of what Coward meant.
The blend of definitive and new cast members in a recent classic has overwhelming impact: as story, as lyric fable, as terrible moral for these distracted times.
Here the shadows fall the more convincingly to join with those chimes at midnight in Henry IV/2.
Confirms Mok confirms he’s a pianist bristling with oblique lyricism and spiky character – an ideal late 19th century-20th century interpreter.
Like The French Lieutenant’s Woman, there are now two endings to Quartet. You must see this if you know the film only, or care about music, ageing, friendship and achingly lost love.
An Edinburgh International Festival, HOME Manchester, Spoleto Festival USA & Theatre de la Ville Paris co-production
Sam Brown A John Dowland Lute Recital
A climactic Fantasia lifts the atmosphere of this recital to something quite apt. A superb debut.
Another pianist to welcome back before he gets snapped up, even in this climate. Superb.
A joyful fleet production, a more-than-rough magic. What renders OFS unique is their fearlessness: a humour and zest to tear into buried Shakespeare, read the entrails.
A triumph. Nearly flawless, it must be seen by anyone interested in contemporary drama.
We’re privileged to see this rarely-performed work moulded by OFS. A play for our times.
Yaqi Yao, Violin and Cheung Man Lok Piano Recital
A memorable debut, with welcome original repertoire
