There is something so ethereal about Agnes Obel. Raised in Denmark but now based in Berlin, the melancholy in her sound echoes folk and fairytale conventions. In the queue I overhear two burly men sum this up quite neatly. ‘She’s girly… but with a dark side’ one says to the other. Thus the Neo-Gothic, Grade-I listed Union Chapel, Islington, seems a fitting venue.
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Author: Naomi Graham
Naomi is a Music and Theatre correspondent for Performance Reviewed. One day she plans to combine her love of the arts with her love of cats, resulting in the world's first multi-sensory FTS (Feline Theatrical Spectacle)
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird
From the outset, it is clear that Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s adaptation of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is all about the ultimate comfort of storytelling. Having ventured into the park and up the winding paths leading into the theatre, there is a sense of settling down somewhere ‘otherworldly’.
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