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Jenny Hval Milton Court Concert Hall, London
Weird and sometimes wonderful concepts from the performance artist
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
A FAR cry from her last horror-flick and menstruation-inspired 2016 album Blood Bitch, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval’s latest release The Practice Of Love is a poetic homage to all things amour through the prism of 1990s trance music.
High concept: Jenny Hval
With this concept in mind, entering the intimate Milton Court to find Hval in a tent onstage is somewhat bemusing.
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