FILM CONCERTS
HANS ZIMMER REVEALED
Live in Concert
HANS ZIMMER REVEALED
Live in Concert
A non-traditional film concert—combining modern compositions with ‘new’ renditions of mid-1990s classic scores—Hans Zimmer Revealed showcased the talents of Remote Control artists, giving them ample space to thrill and entertain audiences with their dynamic performances, and it gave Zimmer a forum to present his own compositions in a way that sits, if not arrogantly, then uneasily alongside the other more conservative programmes of film music still lined up for the remainder of the year.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY LIVE
Live in Concert
Back in 1968, audiences would find their places in the auditorium as György Ligeti’s Atmospheres played from behind a screen, curtains drawn. But we were already seated, the conductor André de Ridder also already introduced, and those in attendance were busily awaiting the triumphant, space-filling fanfare of Richard Strauss’ Thus Spake Zarathustra and the sight of that piercing sun rise above Earth and Moon.
PLAYS
NEIL SIMON’S ‘THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE’
The Vaudeville Theatre, Covent Garden
In great form, Jeff Goldlbum’s idiosyncratic approach — less with the hands this time, more with the eyes — owes a fair bit to the eccentric mannerisms of his Seth Brundle under the direction of David Cronenberg, and the actor has of course touched on similar social crises before, the John Landis film Into the Night (1985) for one.
JOE SUTTON’S ‘COMPLICIT’
The Old Vic Theatre, London
