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The spinster sisters of Esk, Mourne, Eve and Dawn Kransky, have created their own Kris Kringle that incorporates carols, covers and conversation about ghosts of Christmas past.
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An evening to forget the stress and endless planning of present buying and arbitrating between less-than-friendly relatives on the day.
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From anthropology to cosmology, Knots’ narrative threads science through the needle of emotion and ethics, stitching stories of individuals into the tapestry of a bigger picture.
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I'm so whisked up in the controlled chaos of it all I am not even sure of my own thoughts any more, and all I know is I am suddenly very aware of my own shortcomings as a human. Next to me I hear my companion whisper “What have I done with my life?”
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Perhaps one of the most-adapted works of children’s literature, possibly of literature in general, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland seems like material ripe for adaptation to ballet.
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‘Tis the season to be jolly, and The Ensemble ends its 2017 season with a jolly production of Alan Ayckbourn’s silly-arse farce, Taking Steps.
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It is difficult to overstate the magnificence of the opera itself. Faster-moving than Mozart, more true to prevalent theories of drama than Wagner, and without later imitations in almost any respect, it is one of the truly great combinations of music and theatre.
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Bartok’s one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, is a post-Freudian re-working of Charles Perrault’s Barbe Bleu (1697) in which the doors in the castle become the doors into Bartok’s heart.