GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Edifying entertainment
WILL STONE applauds a quartet of dance vignettes exploring the joys and sorrows of the human condition
INNOVATION: High energy duets that are mixed with chorus lines of comic performance in Pam Tanowitz's Or Forevermore
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
Royal Opera House
THESE four innovative contemporary ballets explore the human condition, in very different ways, through movement.
Choreographer Kyle Abraham, who founded AIM – a dance company with a mission to create work about black and queer history and culture – introduces the quartet of dances with The Weathering.
First staged in 2022, eleven dancers capture the joys and sorrows of love and loss to composer Ryan Lott’s moving score and Dan Scully’s golden-washed lighting, with paper lanterns dotting the stage.
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