Perhaps he was out of synch with the world. Perhaps it moved too fast for him. When Dewey Redman first came here 40 years ago with the magical Old and New Dreams he was only 50, yet already had the slo-mo shuffle of an old man. When I interviewed him…
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She was the most adventurous of all the jazz singers, and yet to hear her on record was to catch only two-thirds of the deal. The rest lay in the spell she cast in person. Her innate strength of presence was amplified by the visuals: a billowing motion that was…
I was 15 and as impressionable as a piece of dough when Peter Brook’s RSC production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream burned itself into my memory. The play’s magic came to miraculous life on Brook’s famous “white box” stage, with trapezes, spinning plates, stilts and a giant ostrich feather contextualising…