Putting on a performance

This week on CW, Timandra Harkness reviews La Fura dels Baus’s Le Grand Macabre at the ENO in London, a raucous musical exploration of death and physicality that refuses to be taken too seriously. And Cara Bleiman approves of a novel attempt at ‘popularising’ opera that really goes back to the form’s hybrid roots. Miriam Gillinson enjoys Crocosmia, a theatrical gem at BAC, and Giulia Merlo recommends catching a new production of David Mamet’s The Shawl at the atmospheric Arcola before it transfers to the West End.

Meanwhile, Wes Brown is sceptical of Ariel Levy’s polemic about the ‘pornification of society’.

25 September 2009