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Judi Herman
August 23, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Elephant Steps ★★★

Judi Herman
August 23, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Elephant Steps ★★★

Jewish American avant garde theatre pioneers Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman’s ‘occult opera upon perception’ first played with audiences 50 years ago, so this European premiere is an anniversary production too. Elephant Steps first ran just a year…

Tagged: avant garde theatre, theatre reviews, surreal art, dadaism

Judi Herman
August 15, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Little Shop of Horrors ★★★★

Judi Herman
August 15, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors ★★★★

Writing team Howard Ashman (book and lyrics) and Alan Menken (music) are responsible for a string of award-winning movie music megahits. Most notably Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, but before they went all Disney…

Tagged: Little Shop of Horrors, theatre reviews, musical theatre

Judi Herman
August 13, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Greek ★★★★

Judi Herman
August 13, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Greek ★★★★

It’s been 30 years since the premiere of this gripping, foul-mouthed opera, its libretto by Steven Berkoff based on his powerful, scurrilous take on the Oedipus myth itself first performed in 1980. Director Jonathan Moore and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage collaborated…

Tagged: theatre reviews, grimeborn, steven berkoff, oedipus

Judi Herman
August 6, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Love Chapter Two ★★★★

Judi Herman
August 6, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Love Chapter Two ★★★★

Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal is justly renowned for her spare, precise choreography, as well as the dedication she inspires in the young dancers with whom she works. Here she collaborates again with fellow Israeli Gai Behar under the name L-E-V (Hebrew for heart)…

Tagged: theatre reviews, contemporary dance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe

Judi Herman
July 31, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Exit the King ★★★★

Judi Herman
July 31, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Exit the King ★★★★

“Everyone is the first person ever to die,” says King Berenger’s favourite Queen, Marie. Romanian-French Absurdist playwright Ionesco wrote this unsettling, provocative drama in 1962, exercised by his fear and expectation that a debilitating liver disease would prove…

Tagged: theatre reviews, rhys ifans

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Judi Herman
July 25, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Me and My Girl ★★★★

Judi Herman
July 25, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
 Me and My Girl ★★★★

Hugely popular Jewish funny-man Matt Lucas makes his musical theatre debut in Me and My Girl. He plays  Bill Snibson, a cheerful Cockney barrow boy who discovers he’s the long-lost heir to the title of Earl of Hareford and a stately pile in Hampshire. It’s the perfect summer musical…

Tagged: theatre reviews, musicals

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Judi Herman
July 23, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret ★★★★★

Judi Herman
July 23, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret ★★★★★

This gloriously witty, erudite tribute to the ‘degenerate’ music banned by the Nazis has graced auditoria large and small and now amply fills the Barbican’s vast space, thanks to the fabulous Aurora Orchestra, placed firmly centre-stage by Barry Humphries and director Nikki Woollaston…

Tagged: theatre reviews, cabaret, musical theatre

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Judi Herman
June 26, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Kiss Me Kate ★★★★

Judi Herman
June 26, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Kiss Me Kate ★★★★

Kiss Me Kate is credited with reviving Cole Porter’s flagging post-war career and from Opera North’s glorious revival it’s easy to see why. Sam and Bella Spewack, the Jewish power couple behind the book, had worked with Porter before and Bella insisted Porter was invited to write…

Tagged: Musicals, opera, reviews, shakespeare, theatre

Judi Herman
June 22, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Finishing the Picture ★★★★

Judi Herman
June 22, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Finishing the Picture ★★★★

Several of Miller’s plays are revealingly autobiographical and this, his last, is an intriguing part of the story. Getting its European premiere here, Finishing the Picture does indeed deal with endings, although it is set some decades before he wrote it in 2004. By the time Marilyn Monroe was…

Tagged: Arthur Miller, reviews, theatre

Judi Herman
May 31, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Into the Woods ★★★

Judi Herman
May 31, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Into the Woods ★★★

I tried explaining Sondheim’s complex morality fable to my five-year-old granddaughter. “You might find it scary," I said. "It weaves together the stories of Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Jack and the Beanstalk with a new story about a baker and his wife. The pair long for…

Tagged: Musicals, reviews, theatre

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