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Best of Enemies – Young Vic Click here for tickets 1968 – a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others. In a new television format, the conservative William F Buckley Jr. and liberal Gore Vidal feud nightly, debating the moral landscape of a shattered nation. Little do they know they're about to open up a new frontier in American politics, and transform television news forever. James Graham’s new play draws parallels between the bad-tempered 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal and the rancorous public arena of today. Their bad-tempered exchanges took place against the background of the riots and protests that were rending America at the time. My colleague Matt Wolf, New York Times theatre critic, calls it “the most riveting play in London..” It stars David Harewood as Buckley, founder of The National Review and a conservative grandee, and Charles Edwards as Vidal, the writer and novelist with contempt for Buckley’s “Christian values”. The Young Vic’s streaming innovation, Best Seat in Your House, is an immersive multi-camera player, designed with flexibility in mind. It is designed to place us, the audience, at the heart of the action, with each show feeling like a new experience. This is an innovative next step in live theatre streaming. Best of Enemies will be broadcast live for four performances between 20 - 22 Jan Soldier Songs – Philadelphia Opera Click here for tickets Opera, rock, and film collide in contemporary composer David T. Little’s exploration of the life of the soldier. This one-man opera has been nominated for a 2022 Grammy in the Best Opera Recording category. It stars Johnathan McCullough as the Soldier who also directs. The conductor is Corrado Rovaris. Be warned, it contains strong language, strobe lighting, depictions of violence, military combat, and PTSD. Strong stuff. More Forever – Caleb Teicher and Conrad Tao Click here to register This is a streamed presentation from Cal Performances at Home of a fascinating collaboration between the dance company of Caleb Teicher and the pianist Conrad Tao. More Forever brings together dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher, a founding member of Dorrance Dance and two-time Bessie Award winner, with pianist and composer Conrad Tao, who is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The movement combines tap and Lindy Hop and is danced by the members of Teicher’s acclaimed company in a 24-foot-square sandbox; Tao performs the piano and electronic score live. Tickets are free for this performance, but registration is required. Jan 20–26; Where in the World – Frick Click here to watch Cochineal. Replacing our beloved Cocktails with the Curator series comes Where in the World? a new series from the Frick. It investigates the origin of various elements contained in their artworks. Where in the World isn’t as good, it’s more stilted and less personal than Cocktails with the Curator but while we wait for the Powers That Be at the Frick to listen to our pleas and bring back Xavier Salomon and Aimee Ng for our weekly art history wallow, it’ll suffice and, in fact, is thoroughly interesting. We already looked at Gold, now here’s Aimee with sculpture curator Giulio Dalvit talking about Cochineal, that extraordinary red colour that came from squashed Mexican beetles. Really. Who knew? Liza With a Z Click here for tickets Liza Minnelli stars in a television concert directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. This is the Liza we remember at her best, the era when she won a Tony, an Olivier, an Emmy (for this programme) and an Oscar. Completely accessible and likeable, like her mother, she’s telling you every lyrical line as though she’s having a conversation with you. Nearly all the songs are by Kander and Ebb, whose style fitted her perfectly and the choreography is Fosse’s best, at a time when Liza’s dancing was up there with his great interpreters, Gwen Verdon and Ann Reinking. She performs many of her hits, including the title number, Liza with a Z and Son of a Preacher Man. The concert concludes with a medley of songs from the film Cabaret, alone worth the price of admission. The Wiz – Hope Mill Theatre Click here for tickets The Wiz, a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s story, The Wizard of Oz, through an African-American prism, was a huge Broadway hit in 1975 when it won 7 Tony Awards. The music and lyrics are by Charlie Smalls and the book is by William F. Brown. It continues to be revived in theatres all over the world and now it’s been produced in one of England’s most successful and reputable fringe venues, Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre, which won Fringe Venue of The Year at The Stage awards in 2018. The theatre had to cancel 15 sold-out performances over Christmas due to Covid and, as a result, the rights holders have agreed to it being filmed and streamed for a strictly limited number of performances to UK-only audiences. Hope Mill’s production has an entirely Black British cast and stars Cherelle Wiliams as Dorothy, Tarik Frimpong as Scarecrow, Llewellyn Graham as Tin Man, and Jonathan Andre as Lion. It is directed by Matthew Xia. Streaming Jan 22-30 £25 Pocket Review Force Majeure – Donmar Warehouse I only saw one play this week. Then I wished I hadn’t. In the current Covid climate, where we have to weigh carefully the risks of going out in public against the pleasure and stimulation to be gained inside our own four walls, I’ve become very discriminating about what I venture out to see. Sometimes, I get it wrong. Force Majeure is a stage adaptation of a popular Danish movie about a family holiday in the Alps. The mother is seething about the uneven distribution of power in her marriage, the father is detached from all except his phone, the daughter is a standard-issue teenage girl, the son is an annoying but cute kid who adds nothing to the story. To fill things out, there are a couple of friends with their own troubles, and a selection of other skiers whizzing up and down the steep ski slope set. And an avalanche which never actually hits anything. So what have we got here? Another play about toxic masculinity? Another play about female resentment? Another play about bad parenting? Or no play at all? The parents are played by Rory Kinnear and Lyndsey Marshall, usually excellent. The supporting cast are all strong actors. The director is Michael Longhurst. I was expecting a riveting evening. Yawn.
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