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LONDON THEATRES: THE EMBASSY

... comedy in three aots by Marten Cumberland, entitled: Climbing. Mrs. Baker Katie Johnson Annie Monica Stirling Joan Baker Kay Astor Alfred Baker Andrew Leigh Mrs. Staunton Molly ITainley Clifford Willie Itiiker Skelton Knaggs Fred Wilson Arthur Powell Leonard ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1937
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 602 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

DANCE REVIEW: Remembrance/SVSPLKT/Tableaux

... year by the Catalan choreographer Toni Mira, Remembrance at Monmouth Leisure Centre employs a diverse range of music, from Astor Piazzolla's Tangedia 3 to Cool from West Side Story, and this selection of well known pieces uuriuiuuies 10 us accessioiiuy ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: El Tango

... PETER BROOK'S Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris was occupied in September by El Tango, a concert performance given jointly by Astor Piazzolla and his musicians, and Milva, a singer of Italian, Spanish and French songs. All the music was composed by Piazzolla ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 27 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: Red Moon

... tender, caring, dis missive, and brutally jealous, as sexual repression is followed by raging desire. The sultry tangos of Astor Piazzola give the piece a context and style, a style that is heightened by the oil drums and spatial bleakness of the staging ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Re: Joyce

... . Affinity, in the sense that while the two may be poles apart in how they arrived Grenfell via the smart Cliveden set of Astor and Coward, Ijpman via a grittier route from Hull they nevertheless converge on the same destination pure laughter through ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

DANCE REVIEW: Caught in the tango spell

... ness of familiar dance hall tunes like La Cumparsita and El Chock) is replaced by a healthy infusion of the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla, writer of angular, spiky pieces, with unexpected shifts of tone and tempo and an occa sional jaz2y sound, with the ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA REVIEW: Maria de Buenos Aires

... Maria de Buenos Aires Covent Garden Festival: Peacock Seldom can a production have been as disappointing as this version of Astor Piazzolla's only opera. Opera is probably not the right word for the piece, but it is certainly closer than what we got ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

DANCE REVIEW: Ballet meets Broadway

... tumes by Loquasto. Dating from 1997, this features stirring and lush music, with those disturbing descents down the scale, by Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peter- burshsky, but has ensemble work rather than the male/female cou plings usually evident in the tango ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Ricochet

... Barron's Duty Free colleague Neil Stacy, who has long since mas tered the art of blustering foolishness. But as for Robert Astor, the fourth actor listed on the theatre posters and in the programme, the least said about his performance the better, for ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 41 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA REVIEW: A Powder-ful first work

... full range and capabilities to fashion a coruscating, iridescent score. However, it lacks a wholly individual stamp. Berg, Astor Piazzola, Ravel (L'Enfant), Mahler (St Anthony and the Fishes in the Maid's 'Fancy' set-piece), tangos, dance music and popular ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

SEARING STEPS Glorious if you're sucker a for tango

... bandoneons alternate between moumfulness and great surges of joyful power, the strings sweep and swirl. The nuevo tango music of Astor Piazzola takes over the last part of the show, with the sens* tional instrumental piece Adios Nonino. with its exciting switches ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATRE NEWS: 'i' cancellation costs backers £400,000

... take a few weeks to think precisely what we want to do' and to relieve Arturo of the pressure of directing, he said. David Astor, the English producer most prominent during the i saga, says he is now entirely in the background, just offering advice ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review