The Arts Review​

Image uncredited Dance is often defined in terms of choreography. Speaking of form, shape, movement, even of body, discussion frequently refers to specific choreographers. Devised and collaborative works often described as collaborations with a choreographer. So you could reasonably assume we understand what a choreographer is and does. Balanchine, Graham, Cunningham, Bausch. Roche, Scott, Jessica and Megan Kennedy, Connaughton. Yet what about the dance theatre director? TikT

Jonathan White and Helen Norton in The Magic Glasses. Image, Al Craig *** There's a fad for reimagining theatrical museum pieces as contemporary plays. Works very much of their time framed in modern terms to supposedly speak to today. Thankfully director Conall Morrison resists the temptation, presenting George Fitzmaurice’s 1913 comedy The Magic Glasses exactly as intended. The production awash in period charm. Yet language makes for hard going, being embedded in old world d

David James Whelan and Molly Lynch in Oklahoma! Image, Marcin Lewandowski *** I have to confess to an abiding love for Oklahoma. I'm also very fond of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical of the same name. A slice of Americana that serves as a proud, if imperfect celebration of a people, a place and a time. A work whose classic songs have endured, immortalised onscreen in 1955, and have been revived onstage to international acclaim in recent decades. A musical that, when y