Judith Flanders
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- Bio
- Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, was recently published in paperback. She writes on the arts and books for the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph and the TLS.
Articles by Judith Flanders
Anna Karenina, Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg, London Coliseum
Wednesday, 04 April 2012
An apocryphal story tells of an awful theatrical adaptation of the story of Anne Frank. When the Nazis arrive to search the house where the family are in hiding, an enraged theatre-goer shouts, “She’... Read more... |
Sweeney Todd, Adelphi Theatre
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Melodrama is not something we accept easily these days, tittering gently as the gore runs, moving restlessly in our seats as heroes or villains declaim to the gallery. So all the more odd, on the... Read more... |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Royal Ballet
Sunday, 18 March 2012
"I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works," accuses the Mad Hatter. "It was the best butter," replies the March Hare apologetically, in Lewis Carroll’s original tale. Butter might or might not suit... Read more... |
Can We Talk About This? DV8 Physical Theatre, National Theatre
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
“Do you feel morally superior to the Taliban? Well, do you?” And we’re off, with another of director/choreographer Lloyd Newson’s interrogations of a taboo subject. DV8 Physical Theatre is 25 years... Read more... |
Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Sadler’s Wells
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
NDT2 is a fascinating beast. The “junior” company of the venerable Nederlands Dans Theater, it features dancers on the cusp of maturity, aged generally between sixteen and their mid-twenties. Here,... Read more... |
Lines of Thought, Parasol Unit
Thursday, 01 March 2012
A show about lines: my tiny minimalist heart goes pitter-patter. And with good cause. Lines can be a bit blah – a quick scribble, and you’re on to the next thing. But they can also by their very... Read more... |
Richard Alston Dance Company, Sadler’s Wells
Thursday, 01 March 2012
The one thing you can count on at an Alston evening is the quality of the music: everything Alston does, and everything he creates for his dancers, revolves around the music. In his wonderful... Read more... |
The Devil and Mr Punch, Improbable, The Pit
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Dickens has been getting all the press in his 200th year, but there is another performer, even older, who celebrates: in 2012, Mr Punch, of Punch and Judy fame, is 350 years old, and Improbable, in... Read more... |
The Bicentenary of the Birth of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abbey
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Why? The question really needs to be asked. Why all the hoopla, the adaptations, reprints, books, comics, tweets, no doubt Facebook pages too. Did we do this for Thackeray last year? Will we do it... Read more... |
Without Warning, Old Vic Tunnels
Monday, 06 February 2012
Site-specific work has been flavour of the month for many many months now, and when the site is as spectacular as the Old Vic Tunnels, one understands why. Nearly 3,000 square metres of tunnelling... Read more... |
David Shrigley: Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery
Thursday, 02 February 2012
It has been nearly a century since modernism decreed that “art” is whatever is produced by an artist, and “an artist” is whoever claims to be one. Mostly I agree with this, and my eyeballs tend to... Read more... |
Draft Works, Royal Ballet, Linbury Studio
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
A few years ago, the word was that a new choreographer was showing interesting things. His name was Liam Scarlett, and although he was very young, some work that had been seen in a workshop was... Read more... |
2011: Mariinsky, Manon, and a German Dane
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Highlights of the year are always interesting. Things you loved at the time do, sometimes surprisingly, fade very quickly. I really enjoyed the Gabriel Orozco retrospective at the Tate: I thought it... Read more... |
Cabaret Falafel, Gaby's Deli, second verse!
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Well, the stars were out near Leicester Square, and it was neither the premiere of a Hollywood blockbuster, nor even a clear night. Instead, the stars were in conjunction at Gaby’s Deli, now the... Read more... |
Cabaret Falafel, Gaby's Deli
Wednesday, 07 December 2011
Even in London’s variegated show-world, something called Cabaret Falafel stands out as an exotic title. To discover that it will take place in a delicatessen, performed by the wonderful Henry Goodman... Read more... |
The Nutcracker, Royal Ballet
Sunday, 04 December 2011
The Nutcracker, if this isn’t too much of a mixed culinary metaphor, divides audiences like Marmite: love it or hate it. Usually it’s the critics who hate it, and for them it is often only the annual... Read more... |
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How to contact Judith Flanders
- personal website
- http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/
