A visit back to my home town is a good chance to revisit and reappraise the museums I grew up with, including Toitū Otago Settlers Museum. A Visit Home In late 2022 I was finally able to take a trip back home, much delayed by the pandemic. Living in London, the city of Dunedin in […]
A guided tour of Moor Park during the 2022 visitor season. This is very likely the only time a golf club will feature on the Salterton Arts Review so let’s get stuck in, shall we? Moor Park There is rather an interesting history to Moor Park, a stately home turned golf club near Rickmansworth, North […]
Let’s get the Christmas season underway with this adaptation of the beloved 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, performed as an opera by the English National Opera (ENO). Warning: allusions to suicide. Plus plenty of spoilers. It’s A Wonderful Life “This year,” I thought, “I will do something different. I need to branch out from […]
A review of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris’s museum of architecture and heritage. Including the temporary exhibition ‘Art Deco France/North America’, a look at transatlantic cultural exchange. Another Paris First For The Salterton Arts Review When I lived in Paris some years ago, events conspired to allow me a lot of free […]
My first time at Paris’s sumptuous opera house is to see this work by a very British choreographer, in its first outing by the Corps de ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris. Mayerling 2022 marks 30 years since choreographer Kenneth Macmillan’s death. Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet from 1970-77, he created ten full-length ballets […]
A quick look at the 2022 Bloomsbury Festival, in which I sampled but a small number of the events on offer under the theme ‘Breathe’. Bloomsbury Festival 2022 I’ve said before that a great feature of London life is that there’s always something on. In fact the problem is likely to be that there’s too […]
A review of Dido’s Bar, an immersive and compelling evening of music and theatre. Arriving at the Royal Docks, visitors will find themselves transported from East London’s Tate & Lyle factory to a world of epic tales and intrigues. Dido’s Bar There is something about the story of Aeneas that speaks to us across the […]
A review of Final Farewell, a mindful audio walk commemorating pandemic loss, taking place in Island Gardens as part of the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival. Final Farewell The period of national mourning following Queen Elizabeth’s death has meant some quick decision making on the part of many creative professionals. What is to stay open? […]
A review of Peaceophobia, a truly innovative performance taking place as part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival. Ali, Sohail and Casper take back control of narratives around their religion, their cars, and their home city of Bradford. Back At GDIF It seems to be a week for festivals. Yesterday it was Unlimited at the […]
A review of Saturn Returns by Sonny Nwachukwu, on as part of Unlimited at the Southbank Centre. Two performers confront the weight of history through various forms of self-expression. First, Some Background Last night at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room I achieved a few ‘firsts’. This was my first time attending the Unlimited festival, for […]
