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I’m afraid this production of The Flying Dutchman, an opera about a man cursed to wander the oceans forever, was…
The timing of this production could not be better, setting as it does one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays amid…
Every betrayal begins with trust and curiously this production of Madama Butterfly became more powerful simply because of where the…
Everyone knows that the film Jaws was a box-office smash. It was based on a best-selling novel by Peter Benchley…
From the moment the curtain rose on the Opera House stage there was magic in the room and everyone was…
The insistence of a telephone ringing can be annoying, “Answer me! Answer me!”, it cries. Yet when it stops and…
Of all the politics in the world, sexual politics is perhaps the most difficult to navigate especially when the initial…
It seems somehow apposite that this play about the last meeting of Paul McCartney and John Lennon should be staged…
The link between a football fan and their team can often be like the relationship between a man and a…