Events

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Impoverished artists find inner riches! Bent’s Adrian Gillan swoons at Puccini’s atmospheric, sonorous and psychologically

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com World-class dance company – with a broad, ever-expanding repertoire; global and home-grown talent; and state-of-the-art

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A classic ballet, but where the boys get all the best moves! Bent’s Adrian Gillan

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Poverty v. aspiration; friendship v. rivalry; male chauvinism v. feminism! Bent’s Adrian Gillan gets immersed

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com The very soul of Chekhov – qua themes, scenes, characters and relations – yet all

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Bent’s Adrian Gillan is besotted by classic ‘20s-pastiche gem The Boy Friend, revived at the

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Love attained; lost innocence regained – yet all too late? Bent’s Adrian Gillan salutes 25

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Jealousy invokes jealousy, then tragedy! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys this simply-staged, powerfully-sung revival of Verdi’s

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Adventure and survival, on the very edge! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is gripped by a unique,

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com No mere period piece, this! Over 60 years on, after its premiere, Bent’s Adrian Gillan

Fresh out of drama school, young actor Stuart Thompson tells Matthew Amer of the thrill of acting, and his exciting

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Societal expectation and self-delusion! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys this brilliantly acted and designed new production

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Bent’s Adrian Gillan falls topsy-turvy in love with the ENO’s latest revival of Jonathan Miller’s

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Raucously hellish Can-can operetta rebooted for a #MeToo age! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails ENO’s fiercely

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com You can only laugh away so much pain! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is moved by a

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Insecurity tests dignity, hurting what it loves! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s revival

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com   Love, betrayal, redemption! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is mesmerised by the English National Ballet’s revival of

by Adrian Gillan for Bent.com  The subjugation of gender – and race! Bent’s Adrian Gillan fetes Tanika Gupta’s enriched-yet-faithful new

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com   A man; his wife, son, gay lover and shrink; plus lesbian neighbours! Bent’s Adrian

by Adrian Gillan for Bent Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys the blistering UK premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s newly streamlined, and still

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Two families, one continent, as past flows into present! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is rocked by