John Blow's opera, Venus & Adonis, explores and exploits the themes of power play, manipulation, and yearning. Venus’s reluctance to surrender coupled with Adonis’s innocence leads to both a tragic ...

“Is it going to be like Team America: World Police?”, my teenage son asked on being told it was puppetry for adults. Mere words were not enough to address this question, so we sat and waited till ...

I have been allergic to puppets ever since a school trip to a marionette version of a Mozart opera at the age of 11. But I have been totally cured thanks to this witty, erotic and ingenious version of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This world-premiere from Sport for Jove shines new light on Shakespeare's rumoured mistress and most significant rival There are many conspiracy theories about who “really” wrote Shakespeare’s works.

They do it with strings, and they do it quite beautifully. Form and content are perfectly married in this puppet version of Shakespeare's erotic love poem, created with the combined expertise of the ...

(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...