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Review: La bohème, Royal Opera House

February 4, 2020April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Happy 70th Birthday, English National Ballet, London Coliseum

January 21, 2020April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Le Corsaire, English National Ballet, London Coliseum

January 14, 2020April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: My Brilliant Friend, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)

January 13, 2020April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Three Sisters, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)

January 7, 2020April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: The Boy Friend, Menier Chocolate Factory, London

December 24, 2019March 18, 2022 Jay

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

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Advice Entertainment Events 

New Queer’s Resolution

December 20, 2019May 21, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Out with the old, away with the blues: let Bent’s left-field Adrian Gillan help shape

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Entertainment Events 

Review: La traviata, Royal Opera House

December 19, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Otello, Royal Opera House

December 17, 2019April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Touching the Void, Duke of York’s Theatre, London

December 12, 2019April 3, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: A Taste of Honey, Trafalgar Studios, London

December 11, 2019June 7, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

A Taste of Honey: Stuart Thompson Q&A!

December 2, 2019May 22, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Death of a Salesman, Piccadilly Theatre

November 26, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: The Mikado, English National Opera, London Coliseum

November 20, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Don Pasquale, Royal Opera House

November 19, 2019May 19, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Comic caution on ageing, vanity and legacy! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a timelessly relevant revival

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Hansard, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)

November 18, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com 1988. Section 28. And politics gets personal between a Tory MP and his wife! Bent’s

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Events 

Gay Fawkes Night?

October 28, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

By Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Blazing faggots! Over 400 years on, sparks fly as Bent’s Adrian Gillan explores King James

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Orpheus in the Underworld, English National Opera, London Coliseum

October 20, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Trafalgar Studios

October 14, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: ‘Master Harold’… and the boys, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)

October 3, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic, London

September 30, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for Bent  Tragic cycles of brutal tribalism! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a clever “Celtiberian” adaptation of gay

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Akram Khan’s Giselle, English National Ballet. Sadler’s Wells, London

September 25, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Events Travel 

Lake Geneva Region: Swiss Hike, Wine & Dine!

September 23, 2019May 4, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.Bent.com  Along the alluringly sloping Swiss north shore of majestic Lake Geneva, twixt Geneva itself and

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Entertainment Events 

Review: A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith, London

September 16, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Falsettos, The Other Palace, London

September 13, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

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

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