The Choral depicts an amateur choral society in wartime Yorkshire taking on Elgar’s trailblazing and controversial work. But how much does Alan Bennett’s fiction reflect actual fact?
Nicholas Hytner’s…
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BRIAN VINER reviews Nicholas Hytner's The Choral: Too many duff notes in this sub-par Alan Bennett comedy - but Ralph Fiennes is on song ⊕
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This week's good news is that Alan Bennett, now aged 91, has written a new original screenplay.
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable ⊕⊕
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
Alan Bennett’s new film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is a quiet and consistent pleasure: an u…
5 months ago
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes makes pleasant music in low-volume drama ○
Toronto film festival: the actor is a reliably committed presence in this gentle Alan Bennett-scripted first world war tale which might have worked better on stage
There are simple Sunday afternoon pl…
8 months ago
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief ○
Bridge theatre, London
The immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters
Shenanigans reign in this neck of the …
12 months ago
‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins ○
So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres
If a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done …
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