Our House to Your House: Live From Covent Garden
First live social distancing opera and ballet experience streamed to an audience at home. Very well done and empathic, in that the...
An Arts and Culture Blog...
Welcome to Cultural Capital - an arts and culture blog for the naturally curious. All my own opinions #IMHO! I love arts and culture in many forms from dance and music to theatre and art galleries. Sharing what I've experienced and appreciated - hope you enjoy =)
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First live social distancing opera and ballet experience streamed to an audience at home. Very well done and empathic, in that the...
Edgy and energetic - Tom Hiddleston is a blood soaked Coriolanus who moves from war machine and family man avoiding power, whilst...
I don't know what to think about the Colston statue or it's dumping in the harbour. I don't know what to think about the cultural impact...
Beautifully danced and scored ballet based around the life of Jacqueline du Pre, eminent cellist. The main characters are the cellist...
It's 1974 and there's a hung Parliament in Britain. MPs, Whips and the Speaker battle it out to get votes and control of...this house and...
Amazing Anastasia! This Royal Ballet production is both lyrical and narrative, a danced drama. It is unfortunately based on a made up...
Imploding the American Dream, Tennessee Williams creates a set of relationships disintegrating and going seriously wrong. A snobblish,...
I loved seeing this production live - the film version loses some of the close up intimacy of the stage version, and I'm sure the one I...
No idea what's going on in this play. I don't think it's the actors faults - they speak their lines really well, Jude Akuwudike is full...
Not something to watch if you're grieving, but if you have half an hour to spare, don't miss this. A searing emotional monologue from...
Lyrical, dramatically choreographed and acted out ballet at it's best, I was gripped from beginning to end. The plot is quite convoluted...
(* Some spoilers.*) I was privileged to be able to see this production live; now instead of enjoying this production live and another...
So important at this time to be supporting local businesses and culture - I present Trial by Jury and The Zoo by Pocket Theatre. These...
Yesterday I was dancing like Beyonce, with a guy streaming from his lounge who looked like he was wearing his pants... very short shorts,...
**(Some spoilers)** Gothic, imaginative and thrilling production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. You can see both versions for a short...
I'm not a Mozart fan, but this production shows that opera can be fun! Scheming servants, random relationship testing by going away with...
I have no clue. There's opera, there's contemporary interpretive ballet in the background, Handel's gorgeously, galloping music, a...
(*Some spoilers*) I was confused in the first half hour of this, having mashed up the plots of Kindapped and Treasure Island in my mind,...
Jane Eyre!!!!! (*Some spoilers). This is a fantastically Gothic and elemental version of Jane Eyre, putting the drama back into costume...
Ballet with a twist? Why not try the Royal Ballet's Peter and the Wolf. Not just for kids! I'm sure I've seen more Brothers Grimm-type...