Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Net effect | 23 November 2017

Plus: the promenade performance 'Inside Pussy Riot', at the Saatchi Gallery, is not needed here but in Moscow

issue 25 November 2017

The inexplicable popularity of Ivo Van Hove continues. The director’s latest visit to the fairies involves an updated version of Network, a creaky and over-rated news satire from 1976. Van Hove appears to be unconstrained by thrift or self-discipline and he fills the Lyttelton stage with expensive clobber. It’s like a hangar full of half-tested prototypes.

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