Dominic Cavendish

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Dominic Cavendish

Celebrating its 25th anniversary yet seeming to have been a fixture in the circus landscape for aeons, the old-world charm of the Cotswolds-based Giffords Circus offers an antidote to everything that's miserable about the UK at the moment. The sight of Giffords' big-top, with attendant gypsy caravans - as if spirited from the pages of Dickens but serving lots of good grub and drink too - is itself enchanting.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Dominic Cavendish

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3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dominic Cavendish

The course of true love: Paul Adeyefa, Nina Cassells and Divesh Subaskaran - Manuel HarlanBack in 2019, I gave five stars to Nicholas Hytner’s “immersive” production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His achievement was to take Shakespeare’s over-familiar comedy of romantic confusion – in which young lovers and bumbling am-dram actors come unstuck in the Athenian forest - and make it fun, funny, beautiful, revelatory and, yes, sexy.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Dominic Cavendish

Back in 2019, I gave five stars to Nicholas Hytner's "immersive" production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. His achievement was to take Shakespeare's over-familiar comedy of romantic confusion - in which young lovers and bumbling am-dram actors come unstuck in the Athenian forest - and make it fun, funny, beautiful, revelatory and, yes, sexy. His master-stroke: magicking the action amid, and above, standing spectators (the rest seated), employing daring circusy high jinks.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Dominic Cavendish

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