Review of David Hare’s new play, The Moderate Soprano. Starring Roger Allam as John Christie.

Find out what the critics had to say about Roger Allam’s performance as opera manager John Christie in The Moderate Soprano at the Hampstead Theatre, London

Text by Giulia. Four years before beginning to work on his Four Quartets, in a letter to Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot wrote of Beethoven’s quartet in A minor, “I should like to get something of that into verse before I die.”… Read More…

After last autumn’s Seminar, Roger Allam returns to Hampstead Theatre to play John Christie in the world premiere of David Hare’s new play, The Moderate Soprano. In 1934 John Christie and his wife opera singer Audrey Mildmay, and three refugees from Nazi Germany (Carl Ebert, Fritz… Read More…

“It could be pure kitsch, a Madame Tussauds-grade piece of tourist tat. That it is not, that it manages to be a serious and adventurous theatre, is down to its artistic direction, but also to its fabric.”- Rowan Moore, ‘Sam Wanamaker… Read More…