Berlin is a very lucky city for its vast, colourful and accessible cultural landscape. One pillar of this is the Staatsballett Berlin. New artistic director Christian Spuck started the season 2023/2024 with his work, the fabulous BOVARY, based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. With his prima ballerina Weronika Frodyma as his muse and collaborateur […]
Live Theatre Review: Purity and laser-like focus for Pierrot Lunaire at Komische Oper
October 12, 2020 by
In these uncertain Corona times, you don’t have many opportunities to actually witness live theatre performances inside a venue. So I was very happy, writes Sabine ‘Bee’ Koch, to get a ticket for Pierrot Lunaire at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Categorized as three monodramas – two spoken word only, one with accompanying music – Not I […]
Movie Review: Berlinale 2019 Top 3 Picks – Bee’s Bunch of the Best
February 25, 2019 by
This year’s Berlinale marked the swan song for Dieter Kosslick, the outspoken and celebrity-friendly festival director. After 18 years he is giving up his reigns and although he has been criticised by some over the last years, his contribution in making the Berlinale one of the top 5 film festivals of the world and the […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Clubbing The Blues in Dublin
March 3, 2015 by 1 Comment
Twenty four hours in Dublin over the weekend, for the very first time and Sabine Koch found what everybody knows – it’s a bustling place where you can have a heck of a good time. I came to see Sea Wall at the Dublin Theatre Festival, but I wanted to spend my time getting to know the music scene as […]
THEATRE REVIEW: Sea Wall with Andrew Scott at Dublin Theatre Festival
March 2, 2015 by 4 Comments
Facing the SEA WALL twice….. review by Sabine Koch I had the good fortune to see Andrew Scott live on stage last year in London for the Simon Stephens play BIRDLAND at the Royal Court Theatre. It was a wonderful experience, one of the best I had in a theatre – ever. So when I […]
