Horden Methodist Church, County DurhamEnsemble '84 generate an exhilarating racket in this gutsy rendition of Brecht's play about the thirty years' war The noise is constant. It is in the eight marimbas lined up across the stage, which add a South African bounce to Bertolt Brecht's 1939 epic of the thirty years' war. It is in the operatic songs, all lush harmonies and pulsing percussion. And it is in the vocal effe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM on May 18, 2025