MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
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
“THERE is that smaller world which is the stage and that larger stage which is the world,” writer and critic Isaac Goldberg once said.
Truth is, it’s all becoming one and the same as enforced isolation connects us with art, music and theatre we probably wouldn’t get to see in normal times.
A case in point is the latest online offering from Opera North. Internationally renowned conductor Tobias Ringborn should have been at the helm of its orchestra for concerts of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra in Leeds and Huddersfield by now.
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