★★★✰✰ Trying to understand a holistic approach to the narrative was like compiling a jigsaw where some of the pieces are missing and others don’t fit.
Tag - Dracula
★★★✰✰ There were times in the hour-long performance when the sensory overload kicked in and one started to be more conscious of the heat inside the chapel...
★★★✰✰ At the end of the evening was what you might call the blockbuster piece of the tour - 30 minutes of Matthew Bourne in the form of Act II of his "Highland Fling". Bourne's take on "La Sylphide" is a wonderful piece of work, full of wit, style and pathos...
★★★★✰ It's taken me a while to catch up with Lorent but my goodness I won't miss much from here on.
★★★★✰ This is a bold project, crammed with incident and detail, and highly atmospheric.
Award winning Mark Bruce has just unveiled his latest work - The Odyssey - based on Homer's epic poem. But circumstances around the premiere have put the company through their own testing odyssey, if we were tantalised and enthralled by what we saw...
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2014 took place today in London at The Place’s Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
Batley's Dracula is a towering presence, subtly portraying the torment between evil and desire; the seducer and the seduced.
5 Questions to Jonathan Goddard on Dracula and more...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
This production, in this place, is about as good as it gets. If it doesn’t win a slew of awards for Mark Bruce and his team then I might just have to go walking around those East End Alleys in search of the vampire bride!
The ethereal impact is greatly enhanced by atmospheric lighting, smoke, the sound of bells and the sundry, diverse smells of devotion in this old Grade-1 Listed Victorian church.
5 Questions to Mark Bruce about his up and coming premiere and UK tour of 'Dracula'....