Tag Archives: Peter Nichols

Mazeppa, Grange Park Opera, June 2025

Posted on 3 July 2025

Mazeppa himself is sometimes regarded as a Ukrainian patriot against the Russians, but the truth is somewhat more complicated. Sweden was at that time, along with Russia, a great power in the region, but for more details see my review of this furiously compelling opera.

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Passion Play, Duke of York’s Theatre, May 2013

Posted on 8 May 2013

“My opinion is that most people come to grief for expecting too much of one another”, says Zoë Wanamaker’s Eleanor near the beginning of Peter Nichols’ 1981 play about marriage, adultery, and dare I say it … love. Certainly she doesn’t seem to expect too much of Owen Teale as her husband James. He on …

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