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…a brisk and expressive reading that in parts is as beautifully phrased and cultured as you will hear.

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Robert Thicknesse

The cast and conductor, Jeremy Silver, leap on the roller-coaster with abandon... every phrase is taut, every note full of passion, every emotion full-blooded.

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Warwick Thompson

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La Bohème, Puccini
D: Michael Hunt
C: Jeremy Silver
LA BOHÈME AT ARTSCAPE

Imaginatively transplanted into a dystopian South Africa of unspecified date, the Paris-based original fares remarkably well, generating both mirth and pathos. For instance, instead of the romance-promoting powercut of Act One being due to an empty meter, there is the all-too-familiar announcement, “Eskom regrets that…”The downside is impaired credibility when at Christmas (in South Affica???) there are references to freezing cold, with lightly-clad vendors at the outdoor night market cheek by jowl with shivering, heavily muffled-up patrons.Particularly successful are the comic interludes of Acts One and Four in which poverty-stricken men resort to puerile antics to allay their intense hunger and dire living conditions

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01 12月 2021weekendspecial.co.zaBEVERLEY BROMMERT