| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2012 Upstairs at the Gatehouse | A Wartime Così fan tutte |
 Production director Daisy Evans welcomes her audience to Così fan tutte set in October 1943 in Sicily. The set (designed by Katharine Heath) is intriguing, with three propellers along the back wall of the performance space and a small stage at the side set up for an Ensa troupe. However, concerns about the pitfalls of “concept” productions were confirmed from the start. Back-projections of Second World War film footage accompanied the overture; the first of many incongruities and distractions.Read full review... | |
| 29-Dec-2011 King's Head Theatre, Islington | Hansel and Gretel on the small stage |
 If you think that Hansel and Gretel is a gentle, happy piece of Christmas cheer, the first act of Lewis Reynolds's pub production for Open Door Opera might give you pause for thought. The children may be naughty, but they're genuinely starving, and the mother may be overbearingly harsh, but she is genuinely at her wits' end.Read full review... | |
