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Benjamin/Crimp: Picture a day like this album review – jewel-like precision

Recorded in Aix where the work was premiered, with the composer himself conducting, the beauty of George Benjamin’s instrumental lines shine with this excellent cast

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

The Guardian - UK

Picture a day like this review – Benjamin’s modern fairytale of sparse and moving beauty

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s enigmatic new work tells of a mother mourning the death of her child. If the dramatic pace is a little unvaried, its musical world is luminous and utterly distinctive

The Guardian - UK

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‘I threw my pop records in the bin’: George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera

As Picture a day Like this comes to the London stage, the composer speaks about finding his dream collaborator, entering ‘a different dimension’ with Olivier Messiaen – and the day Disney changed his life

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Not One of These People; Not Now; Super High Resolution – review

Questions of who can speak for whom animate both Martin Crimp’s new AI work and David Ireland’s brilliant Belfast dialogue. And a star is born in Nathan Ellis’s white-hot NHS play

The Guardian - UK

Not One of These People review – the playwright as puppet-master

Martin Crimp’s show uses AI and deep-fake technology to question the definition of drama – and what it is to be human

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: That Is Not Who I Am; The False Servant

Royal Court, London; Orange Tree, RichmondA revelatory drama about identity theft is let down by its thriller plot, while translator Martin Crimp adds wit to an outsized Marivaux comedy

The Guardian - UK

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The False Servant review – deception, disguise and filthy lucre

Martin Crimp’s crisp translation of Marivaux’s comedy never feels overplayed and highlights the seductive allure of money

The Guardian - UK

The False Servant at the Orange Tree Theatre review: Lively production rarely does justice to play’s nuances

This production only skims the surface of Marivaux’s 18th century comedy, and of Martin Crimp’s sly 2004 translation

Evening Standard

My trip to festival showed Scotland and Quebec have much in common

TO visit the Carrefour International (“International Crossroads”) theatre festival in Québec City is – for me, as a theatre critic,…

The National (Scotland)

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