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...Much of the magic of A Dog’s Heart lay in director Simon McBurney’s staging, full to the brink with dark magic and ambiguity. Michieletto is ever so much more literalistic....
...And coming up are Gillian Anderson in the Young Vic’s staging of A Streetcar Named Desire (from May 21), James Graham’s sparklingly witty first big play This House (from May 28) and Tom Hiddleston in the...
...Deservedly so, because the Genesis Suite, which sets passages from the King James Bible, is a window on a little-discussed slice of history....
...McBurney and co-adapter James Yeatman try to portray not just Evans’s life but that of America, sometimes too obliquely, as when the account of his movie The Cotton Club intercuts with audio clips of Malcolm...
...Faced with the opera’s many challenges, Simon McBurney has put forward a pure, theatrical solution: the stage is bare and on either side members of the company can be seen creating the visual and sound effects...
...Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Peter Rabbit has a fling in the Scottish Highlands in the company of a redoubtable relative, Finlay McBurney....
...We can never be sure how much of what we are hearing is Shostakovich, and how much is the extensive doctoring carried out by Gerard McBurney, who created this “musical version” 15 years ago, and by Pountney...
...This seems a curious example of the new policy of “Supporting Excellence in the Arts”, announced in Sir Brian McMaster’s report and backed by the culture secretary James Purnell....
...(“A firm hand is the only thing an African really understands,” seedily purrs Simon McBurney’s local diplomat)....
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