ismene brown
Bio
Ismene designed and launched the original version of The Arts Desk, and was the Site Coordinator and a board director for three years, as well as its dance editor. She has been dance critic for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and is presently doing doctoral research in Soviet cultural history at Oxford University. A trained musician, she has also written for TAD on classical music, theatre, TV and film.
Articles By Ismene Brown
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Defending the Guilty, BBC Two review - trials and tribulatio...
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If you’re a farmer who works round the clock to feed sheep, milk cows and so forth, how on earth do you make time to find a partner and reap a...
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Brydon, Mack and Mitchell, Portsmouth Guildhall review - fam...
Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are the host and team captains respectively of Would I Lie to You?, the long-running BBC One...
BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park review – Pet Shop Boys, Westli...
You might think that being first on the bill with a half-hour slot at 1.15pm would be an affront to a band who’d had a 12-times platinum album and...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 1 - sparkle...
While the Proms were ringing out the old season, the...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 2 - total ma...
Any festival would be proud and honoured to end with the great Elisabeth Leonskaja playing the last three...
Muse, 02 review - bombastic Brit-rock with a sci-fi theme
For a band mostly known as a brilliantly ludicrous cocktail of other’s people’s sound-styles, the Simulation Theory tour is proof that...
LSO, Rattle, Barbican Hall review – visions of the beyond
Simon Rattle has a knack for unearthing large-...