Reviews by Chris Giangiordano
Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Chris Giangiordano
This production is a pleasingly ramshackle re-imagining of Shakespeare, done up as a piece of Zimbabwean township theatre. Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu take on the multitude of roles by ...
15 years ago
Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Songs From the Other Side of the Wall
Chris Giangiordano
Songs From the Other Side of the Wall is an intriguing novel about reconciling past and present, about looking to the future and being drawn back into the past. In Dan Holloway’s novel, there ...
15 years ago
Songs From the Other Side of the Wall
The Black Album
Chris Giangiordano
As the audience comes in we are played a series of choice 80s hits and slogans of the era are flashed up on the set – “MATERIAL GIRL” and “ROCK AGAINST RACISM”. It evokes instantly a time ...
15 years ago
The Black Album
WNO's Autumn Season 2009
Chris Giangiordano
In Casablanca, Rick says life’s problems don’t amount to a whole hill of beans. But in this enthralling Welsh National Opera production of Wozzeck, that’s exactly what they do amount to. ...
15 years ago
WNO's Autumn Season 2009
Oxford Lieder Festival 2009
Chris Giangiordano
The opening night of this festival (“the best festival Oxford has to offer,” advised my companion) took place in the Jacqueline Du Pre music building in St Hilda's College. This is not a ...
15 years ago
Oxford Lieder Festival 2009
Stacey Kent
Chris Giangiordano
And with a quiet click of Jim Tomlinson’s fingers we are off; these exemplary and immaculately turned-out musicians exuding a quiet, calm virtuosity that complements nicely Ms Kent’s clear yet ...
15 years ago
Stacey Kent
Jazz Concert
Chris Giangiordano
Susanne Sheehy and Edward Longhurst bring a collection of sweetly rendered jazz standards to the Holywell Music Room. There's a key ingredient of atmosphere lacking from this otherwise successful ...
16 years ago
Jazz Concert
The Pillowman
Chris Giangiordano
Congratulations to Dan Wilner and Sabina Smith for successfully staging this beautifully gruesome play in the Burton Taylor Studio. Katurian (Rory Fazan) is an enthusiastic author of short stories. ...
16 years ago
The Pillowman
Neighbourhood Watch
Chris Giangiordano
When the high street is hit by a series of burglaries, two concerned shop workers and the local priest band together to form a Neighbourhood Watch. Each character is, in their own way, striving for ...
16 years ago
Neighbourhood Watch
Ghost Town [12A]
Chris Giangiordano
In this romantic comedy, Ricky Gervais plays the misanthrope dentist Pincus who dies - “just a little bit” - during a routine medical procedure and wakes up being able to see ghosts. There are ...
16 years ago
Ghost Town [12A]
