Jonathan Geddes
Articles By Jonathan Geddes
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The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, ZooNation, Linbury Theatre...
The Mad Hatter gets it about right when he tells Alice: “You’re entirely bonkers… but all the best people are.” Kate Prince takes this line and...
La traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a...
Later this autumn Richard Eyre’s La Traviata celebrates its 30th birthday. Not bad going for the director’s first ever foray...
Red Rooms review - the darkest of webs
A woman sits at her computer. She copy-pastes an address into a search engine. She goes to street view. She zooms in. Click. Opens...
Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime, BBC Four review - satisfying nov...
Like the BBC’s documentary series The Yorkshire Ripper Files before it, the French six-part drama Sambre on...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review - a lively resurrection
Sometimes love never dies and the dead never rot. A lot of water has flowed down the River Styx since...
Blu-ray: Floating Clouds
Once regarded as highly as Kurosawa and Ozu, Japanese director Mikio Naruse’s star has fallen in recent decades, with few of his films readily...
Starve Acre review - unearthing the unearthly in a fine folk...
Blame the high cost of city housing, or killer smog. What else can explain a bright young couple’s move from 1970s...
First Person: Alexandra Dariescu on highlighting women at th...
This year, I am delighted to be supporting the Alexandra Dariescu Award at the Leeds International Piano Competition for an outstanding...
Proms 63-65, Choral Day review - from Harris to Handel/Mozar...
The Proms’ Indian summer of big visiting orchestras is over – and what a parade...
Album: Juniore - Trois, Deux, Un
Although it takes seconds to discern that Juniore are French, a core inspiration appears to be the echoing surf-pop instrumentals of Californian...