118 stories by "Tim Hochstrasser"
By Tim Hochstrasser
There is an open-minded integrity about these conversations and characterisations that is highly impressive and which deserves a wider audience in a larger (but not too m…
By Tim Hochstrasser
The evening as a whole provided a superbly invigorating beginning to the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola. We were given new insights into an old work that made it seem m…
By Tim Hochstrasser
So in sum, the production did achieve exactly what Grimeborn sets out to do each year. It knocked old layers of varnish off an old favourite and found a new and convincin…
By Tim Hochstrasser
So while this is a challenging night in the theatre in the best sense, it remains incomplete and unfinished and invites further revision and reflection on the part of the…
By Tim Hochstrasser
The evening was notable for reviving a work of genuine tuneful elegance and comic potential. The commitment and skill of the production overall makes you want to see the …
By Tim Hochstrasser
Inevitably there are many priceless anecdotes that had to be left out of this play, and its dramatic transformation is not perfect. But it captures the spirit of the orig…
By Tim Hochstrasser
In sum, this is a thoroughly absorbing evening in the theatre with high professional values across the board, but where the real rewards and revelation come in the second…
By Tim Hochstrasser
Montemezzi may have been something of a one-work composer, but this performance made the best case possible for his masterpiece, and we can only hope that the repute of t…
By Tim Hochstrasser
Yet, Holland Park Opera, here working under director Aylin Bozok, show that these problems are by no means insuperable where the company have confidence in the quality of…
By Tim Hochstrasser
If you have missed this charming opera this time around then do book now for one of the performances at the Linbury Studio Theatre in early November. You won't regret it.…
By Tim Hochstrasser
This is a noisy and shouty play and in many ways that is necessarily so " industrial processes, bombs, football matches, drinking in the pub " these provide the necessary…
By Tim Hochstrasser
This is a very great opera that can take many different interpretations. However, there is no room for compromise. Ultimately, it either has to be done straight and with …
By Tim Hochstrasser
So often the press night comes too early in a run to fully assess a production's potential. This welcome and ambitious new version has not yet attained greatness but cert…
By Tim Hochstrasser
For all these reasons, a new production of Hecuba is very welcome and cannot fail to be thought provoking and moving, even when allied to a parallel re-telling of the sto…
By Tim Hochstrasser
In terms of lighting, set, costumes, sound and design the creative team led by director Donnacadh O'Briain do a very solid job, alongside the cast. But the professionalis…
By Tim Hochstrasser
Memories still linger of the impressive Opening Ceremonies to the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in London in 2012, and The Four Fridas is best viewed as a (partly) su…
By Tim Hochstrasser
The play is staged in the round with a pleasing and teasing contrast between the artifice stage convention and informality. The gestures towards setting are practical and…
By Tim Hochstrasser
One of the most exciting features of the current fairground-cluster that is London Wonderground on the South Bank is the focus on late night cabaret. In the summer months…
By Tim Hochstrasser
Matilda this show is not " the original and the adaptation are thin fare in comparison with the disturbing and multi-layered creations of Dahl and his later creative adap…
By Tim Hochstrasser
There is not much room for manoeuvre upstairs at the Old Red Lion, but the creative team, led by director Jonathan Kemp, have put together a flexible and well dressed set…
By Tim Hochstrasser
As with so many theatres of a certain age, the bar at the Theatre Royal is proudly lined with photos of bygone productions from the golden age of repertory theatre; and t…
By Tim Hochstrasser
In this theatre season where commemoration and remembrance of the outbreak of the First World War are much to the fore, many of the most successful dramatic ventures are …
By Tim Hochstrasser
The King's Head has a notable tradition in supporting contemporary drama on gay themes, but sadly as things stand this new 65-minute play by And Davies does not add very …
By Tim Hochstrasser
Please do chase down this wonderful, life-affirming production at one of the several intriguing venues that lie ahead on its current tour " you will not regret it, and it…
By Tim Hochstrasser
Sadly this fine adaptation has a very brief run " I do hope another theatre can be persuaded to allow us to experience this play with this cast once more - and soon…..I…
