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Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Land of Might-Have-Been review – Ivor Novello meets Vera Brittain in a new wartime musical by Martin Kettle

Opera House, BuxtonTwo doomed romances are at the heart of this effective show, which deftly weaves together Brittain’s feminist memoir and Novello’s sentimental songs There is opera by …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Simon Callow: Inside Wagner's Head – review by Martin Kettle

Linbury Studio, LondonSimon Callow's artfully constructed one-man show is essentially a 100-minute lecture on Wagner – but it feels like anything butSimon Callow's one-man show about Wagne…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM
Friday, March 10, 2017

Brexit stage left: how theatre became the best way to understand today’s Britain | Martin Kettle by Martin Kettle

Our political class is still struggling to make sense of the EU referendum. But thankfully our playwrights are finding the wordsThe Brexit referendum asked voters to make a simple choic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM
Sunday, January 3, 2016

I used to think booing was healthy. Now it’s out of control | Martin Kettle by Martin Kettle

The threshold has fallen so low that performers who live every day with fear of failure are being booed by audiences for no good reasonIn the 1980s, I wrote an article in the Guardian that b…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AM
Thursday, August 20, 2015

What Hamlet can teach the Labour leadership about getting things right | Martin Kettle by Martin Kettle

Some dismiss artists as dreamers. But, as with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, they see what works in rehearsal and change what doesn’t. Politicians take noteThank goodness, not for the f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Why do private schools still attract the most memorable teachers? | Martin Kettle by Martin Kettle

It's not surprising that Alan Bennett's The History Boys is Britain's most popular play. The unfairness within our education system enduresThere are obvious pitfalls in reading too much…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PM
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Simon Callow: Inside Wagner's Head – review by Martin Kettle

Linbury Studio, LondonSimon Callow's artfully constructed one-man show is essentially a 100-minute lecture on Wagner – but it feels like anything butSimon Callow's one-man show about Wagne…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PM
Friday, January 21, 2011

Why deny prisoners the vote? | Martin Kettle by Martin Kettle

Reluctance to enfranchise prisoners is a hangover from the age of John Locke – a view of rights that sees the vote as a privilegeIs the right to vote a fundamental human right? You could b…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM
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