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Performer: William Kentridge

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COC triumphs with Kentridge’s brilliantly conceived Wozzeck

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William Kentridge's production of Berg’s Wozzeck has it all: wonderfully imaginative and disturbing designs, terrific acting and singing plus fabulous orchestral playing. 
*****
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Oh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich and Stalin on film

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William Kentridge's film, a patchwork collage depicting Shostakovich's complicated relationship with Stalin, is played as film score to his Tenth Symphony at the Southbank's genre-crossing Multitudes festival. 
***11
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A toy-box of tyranny: Shostakovich, Stalin and Kentridge collide

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Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is a massive and aptly complicated work to which William Kentridge’s film adds contextual layers of stop-motion animation and vintage footage in a surreal nightmare of tyranny.

****1
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