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April 17, 2023 / Features - Archive

How do you possibly turn a silent film into a musical? That was the question puzzling composer Zara Stanton when writer/director Julia Robertson approached her about collaborating on an adaptation of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece, Metropolis. But Stanton describes Robertson as “one of those people who I would follow into battle.…

March 16, 2023 / Features - Archive

After a hard day boiling in Macbeth’s intensity and wading through all the blood he spills during the play, actor Hazem Shammas has an instant release from the mire, gloom, regret and phantasmagorical evil of Shakespeare’s most complex villain. It’s one that brings him back down to earth with a…

February 16, 2023 / Features - Archive

She learned to read music before she could read words, was born a stone’s throw from London’s famed Abbey Road studios, and saw Mozart’s opera The Marriage of figaro at the age of four (her father being artistic director of Kent Opera). But if Rebecca Daniel’s future as a musician…