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Edward Seckerson

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Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.

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R.M.N. review - ethnic cleansing in rural Romania

If you think we’ve got culture wars, then welcome to Transylvania. This rugged Romanian region is home to a bewildering overlap of ethnicities and...

The White Factory, Marylebone Theatre review - what price di...

This powerful play’s immediate backstory, with Moscow sentencing its author to eight years’ jail and its director going into forced exile, is not...

Album: Devendra Banhart - Flying Wig

Had Devendra Banhart been born between 1940 and 1950, he’d likely be a household name. His output– very loosely – sits between Cat Stevens, Syd...

A Year in a Field review - exemplary eco-doc

A shot of a dead field mouse sets the tone for this sobering “slow cinema” documentary, narrator-director Christopher Morris’s response...

Pygmalion, Old Vic review - zappy wit and emotional intellig...

Many of us have perhaps grown too accustomed to the friendly face of My Fair Lady. George Bernard Shaw’s very original play is sharper,...

Side By Side Ukrainian Film Festival, Curzon Soho - cameras...

François Truffaut said that there is no such thing as an anti-war film because cinema inevitably glorifies the horror of conflict. The premise was...

Album: Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever opens with a drone, a weightless prologue of guitar feedback evoking the initial moments of the Buffalo Springfield...

anthropology, Hampstead Theatre review - AI thriller runs ou...

With more than 20 plays under her belt, San-Francisco based Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced...

Frang, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Jurowski, Barbican revie...

These days British orchestras count themselves lucky if they can see, and plan, five years ahead. In Bavaria they do things rather differently. As...

The Little Big Things, @sohoplace review - real-life story m...

It's rare that a new musical or play opens in the...