Mark Bruce Company - The Odyssey

By Graham Watts, 26 February 2016

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“inventive, visually appealing, challenging, loud and hyperactive”

Reviewed at Wilton's Music Hall, London on 24 February 2016

The Odyssey (Mark Bruce)

Mark Bruce Company

Mark Bruce Company: a double bill that does not fail to absorb

Graham Watts, 26th March

Greek Mythology and German Expressionism enliven the great gothic horror story.

****1

Echoes of Albion: Julian Bliss joins Chromatica at Wilton’s Music Hall

Mark Valencia, 30th April

An uncluttered evening of English music includes Gerald Finzi’s gorgeous Clarinet Concerto and Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

***11

At Wilton’s Music Hall, a ghost light for Britten’s ghost story

Mark Pullinger, 26th January

When the pandemic struck and theatres were locked down, OperaGlass Works' staging of The Turn of the Screw was an early casualty. Creative thinking turned the production into a film, with London's oldest music hall the set.

****1

New world created in old music hall: Paul Bunyan at Wilton's

Roy Westbrook, 3rd September

Not since Monty Python has there been more fun with a chorus of lumberjacks.

*****

Devilishly good fun: The Rake's Progress

Benjamin Poore, 17th November

A compelling and energetic debut production from a new opera company in the raddled surroundings of Wilton's Music Hall.

****1

Tragedy undermined at Wilton's

Mark Pullinger, 4th November

Paring the action down to just four singers, La Tragédie de Carmen is the perfect vehicle and venue for a handful of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists to strut their stuff.

**111

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

Mark Bruce Company presents The Odyssey