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Crooked Dances, The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon
Engagingly old-fashioned ghost story dressed up in modern clothes
Recluse: Ruth Lass as Silvia de Zigaro
[Ellie Kurtz]
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
ALL the conventional elements of the bog-standard chiller are present in Robin French’s Crooked Dances, with its pair of innocents caught up in a mysterious and sinister situation, climaxing in a dark and rainy night marooned in a lonely house surrounded by a wolf-inhabited forest.
The innocents are with-it media folk Katy (Jeany Spark) and Nick (Olly Mott), sent by a trendy weekend magazine to interview and photograph reclusive world-famous classical pianist Silvia de Zigaro (Ruth Lass), who’s supposedly preparing for her final concert appearance.
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