Reviews by Joseph Kennedy
Samson & Delilah [15]
Joseph Kennedy
Toasted at Cannes in 2009, winning the Camera D’Or, and the out and out runaway sucess of last year’s Inside Film and Australian Film Institute Awards, Warwick Thornton’s first feature is a ...
15 years ago
Samson & Delilah [15]
Medea
Joseph Kennedy
Northern Broadsides must be finding themselves a victim of their own success, with Lenny Henry’s Othello playing to packed houses in the West End, and now Tom ...
15 years ago
Medea
The North Wall Festival 2009
Joseph Kennedy
If Baudrillard had ever been to Essex on a baking hot day in which a new, hermetically protected, shopping centre was being launched, Traces is the play he would have wanted to see written. This is a ...
15 years ago
The North Wall Festival 2009
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
Joseph Kennedy
‘That was very challenging’, said the chap sat behind me at the end of Twilight of the Gods, the third of the plays in Mark Ravenhill’s trio staged as part of the inaugural North Wall drama ...
16 years ago
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
Dad's Army
Joseph Kennedy
Whilst it is a cliché to say so about film adaptations of television comedies, there was a time when no British sitcom was judged a true success without a summer season adaptation at Blackpool, ...
17 years ago
Dad's Army
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2008
Joseph Kennedy
Five participants, each with their own view on the relationship between religion and human rights spoke at the Holywell Music Room on Thursday to round-off this year’s series of Amnesty Lectures. ...
17 years ago
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2008
An Evening With Rabbi Lionel Blue
Joseph Kennedy
Quite a few years ago, I went to an eighteenth birthday party at the house of a Jewish friend just off the Finchley Road. The basement of the sprawling house was let, at the time, to a couple who ...
17 years ago
An Evening With Rabbi Lionel Blue
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
Joseph Kennedy
The Christmas Oratorio is not so much an oratorio as a bumper, omnibus edition of six cantatas composed for performance at the main Christmas services during J. S. Bach’s time as cantor at Leipzig. ...
17 years ago
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
WNO's Autumn Season 2007
Joseph Kennedy
The SacrificeAudiences in Vienna, Prague, and Milan attending the premieres of what are now the foremost operas of the reportoire surely knew when they’d seen something special; unfortunately, ...
17 years ago
WNO's Autumn Season 2007
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Joseph Kennedy
One of the hardest tasks facing the reviewer of any touring production of a major hit is finding something original to say: When a production reaches Oxford that has wowed New Delhi and Stratford ...
17 years ago
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Julie
Joseph Kennedy
In its beginnings, chamber opera was the embodiment of English practicality and the need for the adaptation of form to venue. Phillipe Boesmans’ Julie is almost a full circle of adaptation with a ...
17 years ago
Julie
Hay Fever
Joseph Kennedy
There is a sense of the Hegelian dialectic to the three-act play. Act One is the status quo, Act Two the shouty revolution and Act Three the new-found, often pap, synthesis. This is wonderfully ...
18 years ago
Hay Fever
Switch Triptych
Joseph Kennedy
Old telephone exchange names were a thing of mystery. The named exchanges of old might have mostly just described neighbourhoods, but as Goddard’s hero wondered in Pierrot le fou, what was gained ...
18 years ago
Switch Triptych
The Way of the World.
Joseph Kennedy
OUDS’s summer tour of Congreve’s 1700 tragicomedy plays this week in the cathedral garden at Christ Church. Watching a naturalistic play in a garden setting is a strange experience compared to ...
18 years ago
The Way of the World.
Decadence
Joseph Kennedy
‘I wouldn’t have it any other way’, says Helen, one half of the upper class pair in Steven Berkoff’s verse play Decadence, which is being staged by the Philadelphia Players at the Burton ...
18 years ago
Decadence
