David Trennery lives and works in London. Cheese is his only weakness.
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Theatre Review (London): The Bridge Project, Season 1: The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard
It can be tough, in these difficult days, to sympathise with actors when they talk about how hard and frightening their work is.
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Theatre Review (London): All's Well That Ends Well at the National Theatre
It's one of Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays: it ends with a wedding but it’s hardly a comedy.
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Theatre Review (London): As You Like It at the Globe Theatre
Everybody is in love with somebody in the forest of Arden.
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Opera Review (London): Lulu at The Royal Opera House
Berg’s Lulu has an eventful career: three husbands, lesbian lover, menagerie of murderous admirers, death by Jack the Ripper...
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Theatre Review (London): Much Ado About Nothing at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park
In Shakespeare’s time ‘nothing’ was pronounced ‘noting’ and ‘to note’ was ‘to overhear’.
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Opera Review (London): Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Enrico Caruso once said that all it takes for successful performance of "Il trovatore" is the four greatest singers in the world.
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Theatre Review (London): England People Very Nice
“They’re all the same, aren’t they?” is the laziest of racist remarks, but it cuts to the quick when it's applied to you.
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Theatre Review (London): The White Devil at The Menier Chocolate Factory
Jonathan Munby’s production of Webster’s 1612 revenge tragedy is ambitious and effective.
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Theatre Review (London): A Disappearing Number at the Barbican Theatre
Complicite's award-winning show about legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan returns to the Barbican.
David Tennant is Hamlet. It was tempting to add ‘Nuff said’ to that first sentence and leave it at that.
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