Colin Davison
Contributor at British Theatre Guide
Wasting life in idle pleasure. Retired journalist and newspaper editor, latterly posing as stage and music critic.
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1 week ago |
britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison
Put on a decent thriller and you will pack them in as surely as commuters pack the 6:15. So a gratifyingly full house was testimony to the pulling power of this old favourite. Rachel Watson, divorced and lonely, envies the life of the seemingly perfect couple she sees from the window of her train every day. So when the wife disappears, she cannot resist involving herself in the mystery, especially as the pair live a few doors away from her ex-husband and his new family.
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1 week ago |
britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison
After the triumphant opening of Zoraida di Granata in Rome, the relatively unknown 24-year-old composer left the theatre in a carriage, accompanied by a military band along a road illuminated by torches in his honour, and Donizetti’s career was effectively launched. Almuzir has seized the throne of Granada and wants to marry Zoraida, but she loves the general Abenamet, so Almuzir has him framed for treason.
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1 week ago |
britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison
Director Jan Philipp Gloger turns Rossini’s first big hit, written in 1813, into a lesbian Romeo and Juliet—warring families and ill-starred lovers as a given, a balcony and a priest with a secret potion thrown in as extras to make the comparison more obvious. The composer set his opera in Syracuse, Sicily, in 1005.
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2 weeks ago |
britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison
This is a Hamlet such as I have never seen or experienced before, and against all expectations, this electric, boundary-busting show blew me away. Directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones have stripped down the text to about half its usual length, with interjections of live music from Radiohead’s totemic album Hail to the Thief.
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2 weeks ago |
britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison
Beautiful, spectacular, intensely colourful, big and brassy and ideally suited to the world’s largest arena for the grandest of opera. Franco Zeffirelli’s 2022 production was first seen at Verona in 2010, and although set and costumes are different, it bears similarities in scale and opulence to the magnificent production that he unveiled at the Met in 1987, where it has been revived many times, most recently last year.
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@rachellebray Hi Rachelle. Great to see you on hall4winchcombe page. I'm Comms Adviser for project to turn Methodist Hall into arts centre. Please email me at [email protected] and I'll keep you updated. Thanks, Colin
@patricialnicol Saw your Gobbolino mention. I wrote Through the Magic Door, Ursula Moray Williams' biography, Northumbria (University) Press (still on Amazon), tracing her extraordinary life. If this is not of interest, please forgive yet another purposeless tweet. Colin
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