Saskia Baron
Articles By Saskia Baron
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Amanda review - too-intense Gen Z-er seeks a friend, boyfrie...
Needy, truculent, and aggressive, an in-your-face stick of intensity and guilt-inducing melancholy, privileged young Amanda in...
Bleak Expectations, Criterion Theatre review - popular radio...
We all need a break from time to time, especially now given the grim state of the world. So it’s not surprising that comedy is making something of...
Disney 100 - The Concert, OVO Hydro, Glasgow review - a slic...
There are a few perils to saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, as Janette Manrara discovered on this opening night of...
Album: Dream Wife - Social Lubrication
Five years ago, breaking dry January a few days early, I joined a throng of folks amongst the merch boxes and strip lights of Rough Trade East to...
Mad About the Boy review - entertaining cradle-to-grave Noel...
Devoted fans may not learn anything that new about Noel Coward from Barnaby Thompson’s...
Re-Member Me, Hampstead Theatre review - wittily staged but...
Lip-syncing has become the hobby of many a young TikToker, but only an intrepid professional would contemplate using the technique to...
Album: Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
This is a slight album in terms of length (under half an hour) but not in emotional insight. It’s absolutely...
Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park review - Verdi's Duke get...
“I am a poor student,” the Duke tells a smitten Gilda, in music that can barely keep a straight face, so plush is its melody, so oozing with...
Jerusalem Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - singing to make the...
Conversation just before this concert started concerned Verdi’s Il trovatore and the truism that it needs “the four greatest voices in...
Requiem, Opera North review - partnership and diversity
Innovation is always a risky business. Opera North’s...