The Silver Lake was the last collaboration between playwright Georg Kaiser and composer/librettist Kurt Weill, before they fled Germany in 1933. The Nazis banned this ‘story for Winter’, as its creators subtitled it, and it’s easy to see why in James Conway’s timely production. Subversive…
First Encounters: Merchant of Venice ★★★★★
Blood Wedding ★★★★
Celebrated Jewish South African director Yaël Farber has a reputation for the power and physicality of her productions. Her treatment of Spanish playwright Federico Lorca’s dark fable grabs its audience by the throat from the get go and pulls it into his story of feuding families caught in a spiral…