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Music: Leos Janacek Director: Nicholas Bone Musical Director: Nicholas Fletcher Reviewer: Greig Ratcliff The Public Reviews Rating: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ is rather an influential marker in the history of opera. First performed in 1924, its audiences were exposed to more novel operatic writing including orchestral interludes, speechless singing, mime and ballet, which broadened and expanded the concept [...]

Creators: Cupola Bobber Reviewer: Katherine Kirwin The Public Reviews Rating: Cupola Bobber are a contemporary performance male duo, comprised of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Meyers, from Chicago who have brought their absurdist style to the UK, currently Manchester. The duo, by their own admission, work slowly when creating a new piece of theatre, usually allowing two years [...]

Writer: Terrence McNally Director: Michael Lunney Reviewer: Iris Beaumont The Public Reviews Rating: “ You never choose love. Love chooses you” was the tagline line for the 1991 film version of Frankie and Johnny. Having seen the film I was looking forward to the show with baited breathe and was unfortunately sorely disillusioned. The scene was readily and [...]

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte Director: Tim Albery Conductor: Justin Doyle Reviewer: Ruth Lovett The Public Reviews Rating: Cosi fan tutte literally translates to ‘thus do all [women]’- but is often translated to ‘women are like that’ and looks at the idea that all women are fickle and their affections can be turned easily and [...]

Writer: Philip Glass Directed by Phelim McDermott Reviewer: Lauren Rare The Public Reviews Rating: This opera charts the life and influences of Ghandi and his quest to educate people about the need for peaceful resistance as a way of attaining political ends. It explores how Tolstoy, Tagore and Luther King inspired him, and in Tolstoy’s case, actively supported [...]

Writer: Euripides Translator: Tom Paulin Music: Barbara Hockaday Director: Barrie Rutter Reviewer: Jane Dawson The Public Reviews Rating: A passionate tale of betrayal and revenge revisited here by Northern Broadsides, a company with a richly deserved reputation for making the classics accessible. The adaptation is by lyrical poet, Tom Paulin. A marriage made in heaven – so why [...]

Director: Dominic Champagne Composer and Musical Director: Violaine Corradi Choreographer: Michael Montanaro and Bill Shannon Reviewer: Sebastian Farrell The Public Reviews Rating: Attending your first circus is always going to be memorable, doing so at the age of 26 to arguably the world’s most successful circus company, to their production of Varekai, surrounded by soap stars and [...]

Composer: Tim A Duncan & Edward James Barnwell Director: Tony Mercer Reviewer: Honour Bayes The Public Reviews Rating: For the first time in 25 years the Royal Albert Hall’s stage has been transformed into an ice rink for a performance as grandiose as its historical host. With fire on ice, breathtaking moments of aerial work and enough spins [...]