Ensemble Theatre, October 23 7.5/10 Sometimes just as you think you’ve failed to light a fire, it suddenly flares up. This production is like that. It flickers and hisses and fizzes for a while, and then the key kindling, desire and arousal, catch alight, and the play begins to burn.…
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ET HAN MOT OVERKLASSEN (Hubro) 8/10 They suck you in, first – not exactly with sunny daffodils, but certainly they hold off gashing you with sonic thorns. Initially the soundscapes are dark, brooding and slightly dangerous, like spotting labyrinthine climbing roses in the dark, just before you were about to…
City Recital Hall, October 18 6/10 The idea was enticing. Take the 15th-century Japanese writer Zeami Motokiyo’s concept of the seven ages of the artist, and depict them in music while incorporating taiko-style drumming. Three of Zeami’s “seven flowers”, as he calls these ages, are clustered in childhood, three between…