The Beggar’s Opera (Vanishing Point) @ The Belgrade Theatre

October 21, 2009

Writing about web page http://www.belgrade.co.uk/site/scripts/show_details.php?showID=367 A recurring complaint raised at the recent reviewing conference was the tendency of reviews to prioritise directorial concept over all else, at the detriment of detailed discussion of acting, design, text and other elements. It’s a fair complaint, though perhaps inevitable when discussing productions of 16th, 17th and 18th century …