January in NY

January 2020

A weekend of Highline

Finding

The Falconer of Central Park and seeing brilliant productions for different reasons

The Slave Play

By Jeremy O. Harris

Directed by Robert O’Hara

The Inheritance Part 1 and 2

By Matthew Lopez

Directed by Stephen Daldry

Wozzeck

By Alban Berg

Production by William Kentridge

2020

happy new year

Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu: Notes on an Unusual Cultural Conversation

Hanne M. de Bruin

Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu is an experimental production in which urban karnatic concert music and rural kattaikkuttu theatre artists collaborate on equal footing, ignoring the division of the Indian performing arts into “classical” and “folk.” Using music, language, and acting, the production addresses the blindness that prevents people, entrenched within their own cultural, social, and political ghettoes, from experiencing any art form with an open mind


Article in TDR published in September

Theatre in London in dec

December 2019

Saw two very different but wonderful productions in London

Whilst staying with my sister and family

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Directed by Marianne Elliot and Miranda Cromwell

Starring Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Suits, Selma) makes his West End stage debut as Willy Loman, with Olivier Award-winning Sharon D. Clarke as Linda Loman.

Touching the Void adapted by David Greig

Directed by Tom Morris

Plus Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square