David Benedict
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Brockes-Passion, AAM, Egarr, Barbican review - fleshly Hande...
Whips, scourges, sinews, blood and pus: where Bach’s two Passions...
SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, Isango Ensemble, Linbury...
While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace, this elegy for black lives lost over...
St Matthew Passion, Ex Cathedra, Skidmore, Symphony Hall Bir...
For the final instalment of their three Matthew Passions this Holy Week, Ex Cathedra gave a large scale performance of Bach’s oratorio in their...
Red Joan review - Judi Dench can't lift lumbering espio...
The decades-long stage relationship between Judi Dench...
Take That, SSE Hydro, Glasgow review - capes and cameos in 3...
This year, says Gary Barlow, marks 30 years since five boys walked into a room in Manchester and auditioned for what...
Climate Change: The Facts, BBC One review - how much reality...
Peer down the glassy dark and you’ll see them. White bubbles trapped in the frozen lake which appear to be rising to the surface. Look through the...
Tommy Tiernan, Shepherd's Bush Empire review - playful...
Tommy Tiernan is something of an institution in his native Ireland, as a...
Loro review – hedonism must have an end
"Them" - the "loro" of the title (with a further play on “l’oro”, gold) - denotes the mostly sleazy opportunists willing to use and be used by "...