It used to be regarded as slightly perverse playing baroque music on authentic period instruments, but the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment changed all that for good and this wonderful last 2015 Festival night of music and song proved beyond all doubt that this is how it should be heard.
Intimate Theatre’s contribution to the Lichfield Festival is always a much-anticipated highlight for me, but this year director Elle Knight somehow surpassed even her own high standard to produce an evening that rose to a theatrical peak many professional companies would struggle to come anywhere ne
LipService Theatre are no strangers to the Lichfield Festival – I saw their play about the Brontes, Withering Looks some years ago – and here they’ve gone bigger and better with The Picture of Doreen Gray.
