‘Puccini is still master of the miserable’ English Touring Opera Nestled semi-ironically amongst the red velvet and golden embellishments of the Hackney Empire, Giacomo Puccini’s classic opera arrives in a flurry of sweet words and cold snow. While musically divine, some visual choices detract from this outpouring of love and loss. The story follows a bohemian set living in squalor ...
‘Slick look at life in all its shades’ After making the journey down from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bryony Lavery’s tasteful adaptation of Alice Sebold’s bestselling 2002 novel The Lovely Bones proves once again that theatre has a magic like no other medium. Starting with murder, this play is as hard going and terrifying as the book and film before it, and ...